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Mark Wadsworth
http://markwadsworth.blogspot.co.uk/
Politics, economics, humour, cow-attacks and Land Value Tax.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 4337 )
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Fun Online Polls: Food You Can't Stomach & Five-a-day
Pub Curmudgeon has written up the results to last week's Fun Online Poll here.This week we're doing Five-a-day. Vote here or use the widget in the side bar. Read more
Posted on 06 January 2014 DEBATE -
Dry January
I've noticed that the killjoys are out trying to get us to not drink with some sort of Dryanuary campaign.I think there should be a campaign for more drinking i... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2014 DEBATE -
Why House Prices in California and New York Are So High.
There is a school of thought that this is largely down to planning restrictions around the most densely populated and/or desirable parts of California and New... Read more
Posted on 05 January 2014 DEBATE -
Forbes "Movie Value" List
From the TelegraphThe lack of gender equality in the film industry was again apparent in Forbes' 2013 Best Actors for the Buck list, with women making up the to... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2014 DEBATE -
The Indestructibility of Land Values
From yesterday's Metro:A detached 17th-century home is available for as little as £25,000 – and is expected to go fast.The property is just 8m (26ft) from the... Read more
Posted on 03 January 2014 DEBATE -
Another Privately Collected Tax
I have just found out the hard way that if you have anything posted to you from abroad that attracts import VAT or customs duties, the carrier pays these on you... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2014 DEBATE -
"US Military Causes Outrage by Invading Vietnam Using Harrowing Audio Recording...
From The Daily Mail:There are a lot of Vietnamese men and women who are angry with Beyonce.Yesterday's US-backed invasion of Indo-China features audio taken... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2014 DEBATE -
Your Handy Cut-out and Keep Guide: Poll Tax, Land Value Tax, Income Tax
Here's a summary of my longer article at KAALVTN:I just don't get it. How can LVT-opponents simultaneously claim that both poll tax and income tax are preferabl... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2014 DEBATE -
Film Review: Epic
Caught this on Blinkbox* last night, and I was rather pleasantly surprised.It's an animated kids fantasy about a scientist who thinks that there's lots of littl... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2014 DEBATE -
Random Conversation About Council Housing
A while ago (a year or two?) I was having a fag at the smoking shelter near where I work (in London) and struck up a conversation with a middle-aged bloke... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2013 DEBATE -
Fun Online Polls: Make up Your Own Question & Food You Can't Eat
The results to the year's final Fun Online Poll were as follows:Make up your own questionNelson Mandela - 20%Margaret Thatcher - 16%Mel Smith - 11%Hugo Chavez... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2013 DEBATE -
Giant Sinkhole Of The Month
Spotted by JuliaM and Pub Curmudgeon in The Daily Mail and at the BBC respectively: Read more
Posted on 31 December 2013 DEBATE -
The 'shadow Tax' on Housing: Drawing the Incorrect Conclusion from a Small...
Something which has been bugging us is the Neo-Classical concept of the 'regulatory tax' or 'shadow tax' on housing, which seems to say that the main, if not... Read more
Posted on 30 December 2013 DEBATE -
Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (312)
This just came up in conversation, so back to that developer-sponsored Policy Exchange report (page 57) to give an example of this KLN:7. Read more
Posted on 28 December 2013 DEBATE -
"First Ever Scalextric Set from More Than 50 Years Ago is Given to Inventor’s...
From The Daily Mail:* Callum, 4, and Luke, 2, unwrap slot circuit kept in storage since 1957* "How do we connect this to the telly? Read more
Posted on 28 December 2013 DEBATE -
The Financial Conduct Authority Sends Itself up Most Gloriously
One of my fellow 'bloggers asked me several months ago what I thought of the FCA's Occasional Paper #1 Applying behavioural economics at the Financial Conduct... Read more
Posted on 27 December 2013 DEBATE -
Diagonal Comparison of The Month
Our Homey-in-Chief Emeritus spewed this nonsense a month ago:Five shocks that could hit businesses over the next few years2) A PROPERTY CRISISFar too few homes... Read more
Posted on 27 December 2013 DEBATE -
Sticks and Carrots
From the OZ equivalent of our Taxpayers Alliance here, this version of the "it's a tax on aspiration" KLN, normally favoured by the likes of Boris Johnson. Read more
Posted on 26 December 2013 DEBATE -
2013 Year End FX Musings
GBP appears to have bottomed out. Interestingly, it goes in line with house prices - currencies and land values are both driven by the same speculative flows -... Read more
Posted on 26 December 2013 DEBATE -
Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (311)
City AM Forum mixes hard facts with mathematical errors, lies and complete bollocks as per usual:... the real problem comes from the government’s decision to... Read more
Posted on 24 December 2013 DEBATE