Or so says The Daily Wire’s Andrew Klavan in the first ten or so minutes of this witty video. In my last post, I said that things were hotting up, and so they did on Wednesday, November 29, 2017. The…
Tag: Taxation
Maybe The Constant Dripping Is Wearing Away The Granite After All..?
The ‘granite’ in question being the left’s insistence on taxes as a problem solver for everything: One of Britain’s leading leftwing thinktanks has proposed the scrapping of inheritance tax after concluding that vehement opposition to the levy from across the…
There’s No Pleasing Some People…
Friends of Marcus Garvey Library have raised concerns over the fact that it is going to be refurbished because this also means it is going to be made smaller. But the group were left angry after Haringey Council offered to…
Jack Marwood Skewers The ‘Guardian’ Holy Cow…
As is well known in the world of educational research, the variation in outcomes within any school is much, much larger than the variation between schools. In the same school, with the same teachers, some children learn a lot and…
“Now I know that a rented home is never yours.”
It takes a rather long time for reality to hit the ‘Guardian’ reading sector, but when it does… I have no doubt that the feelings of heartbreak I’ve been experiencing this week are well known to the thousands of people…
Who Thinks A Penny Of This Money Would Go Towards Tax Cuts?
Ministers today demanded that London’s town halls tackle their colossal £642million in council tax arrears – an average of £188 per household. They warned that council tax bills could be pushed up, or frontline services cut, because of failure to…
Money money money
I saw this headline and had a brief moment of confusion. How on earth could the black economy make Victoria lose $620 million a year? Was all the money going abroad or interstate? I read on to find out and…
Politics of the first resort
I wish I could say that I find the reaction of this politician surprising. Google has refused to explain why it paid just $74,176 in Australian tax last year, despite making an estimated $1 billion in revenue from the Australian…
That didn’t take long
Back at blogging for only a couple of days and already someone has destroyed another cognitive dissonance meter. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, [Permanent Secretary for Tax at HMRC] Dave Hartnett says that householders have a duty to…
OK, Who’d Like To Tell Polly What Local Councils Shouldn’t Do?
Polly Toynbee rages at the ConDem ‘localism’ plans: Sigoma, the municipal authorities group, says that if councils were all allowed to keep their business rates, the City of London would gain £517m. Together, the Tory boroughs of the City, Westminster,…
I Think The Police Would Rather We All Sat At Home Quietly…
…after all, it’d guarantee them an easy life, wouldn’t it? A kebab shop has had its license reviewed following the death of Paul Gunner who was killed while celebrating his birthday. Oh, and why? Did a particularly heavy kebab fall…
Mary Portas’s plans for our high streets
On December 12, the Telegraph alerted the nation to a report by Mary Portas which contains 28 recommendations for our high streets. James Hall, the Telegraph‘s Consumer Affairs Editor, wrote (emphases mine): Years of “erosion, neglect and mismanagement” have left…
Taking it from behind
A alternative history of the Earth in reverse chronological order, but lacking the wholesome triumphs of socialism and political correctness. 1945 – present day. Imperial Japan surrenders to Allied forces in the far East, the Third Reich lies in ruins…
Spot the difference
There are those who claim that a payment only counts as ‘tax’ if it is paid to the government and dismiss my notion that there is such a thing as ‘privately collected tax’. So can anybody tell me what the…