The Land Value Taxation Campaign is
a single-issue organisation based in the UK. It proposes that the rental
value of land should be collected and used as the principal
source of public revenue, as a replacement for present taxes on wages,
profits, goods and services. This policy mitigates and may even eliminate chronic economic problems.
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Our reporter was able to pose as an illegal immigrant and work as a cleaner at the Treasury with after-hours access to the private office of the Chancellor. In the wastepaper basket several screwed up piece of paper revealed a handwritten draft of a speech that Alasspoor Darling planned to deliver to the House on the occasion of the forthcoming budget. In our latest scoop we are pleased to reproduce the text, word for word. Only the identity of our reporter has been omitted for security reasons. This is what the Chancellor scribbled:
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The Secretary of State for Transport, Rt Hon Lord
Andrew Adonis, announced the government's proposals for a new network of high speed railways
in this statement. Further details are given in
this 152 page report. We shall be commenting when we have had time to consider the proposals.
It is good to be able to say something complimentary about Tax Justice for once. They have given a good write-up to the International Union's April conference on their website in an article headed "
Why is so much wealth in the hands of so few?"
Former racing driver Stirling Moss was
interviewed in the Daily Telegraph today. It is instructive - here is an extract...
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