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Year: 2018

A proper Christmas present please

December 19, 2018December 19, 2018Uncategorized

Allowing land speculation is what makes homes unaffordable. It’s a choice. One much favoured by those keen to continue extracting socially produced wealth at the expense of those who do not own sites. For Christ’s

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AGR/LVT offers to add £100bn to Scottish GDP by 2030

December 16, 2018December 16, 2018Uncategorized

Even with limited devolved tax varying powers Holyrood could add £100bn to Scotland’s GDP by 2030. Sadly, without reform we’ll be lucky to see an increase of £20bn. AGR/LVT please.

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People’s Budget No. 2: The Scottish Budget

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018Uncategorized

peoplesbudget2.web The distortions affecting society and the economy from Wednesday’s Scottish budget are considerable and avoidable. What is the public pricing mechanism that would render budgetary expenditures self-funding, so that the money does not have

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The DW Index: a replacement measure for GDP

December 13, 2018December 13, 2018Uncategorized

Economist Fred Harrison and SLRG propose a better measure than GDP, which is rightly derided on all sides as a poor measuring tool for economic health.

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SLRG’s Professor Roger Sandilands talks to Scottish Government economists on AGR/LVT

December 9, 2018December 10, 2018Uncategorized

SLRG’s Professor Roger Sandilands’ presentation on AGR/LVT to Scottish Government employees on 19 October went well. Here is Professor Sandilands’s 29-slide Powerpoint presentation. Edinburgh powerpoint presentation (r), Oct 2018 70 Scot Gov economists and other employees

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The Harrison Model

December 8, 2018December 8, 2018Uncategorized

Are people killed being by misguided tax policies in 21st century Britain? Explaining premature deaths by zone has been the subject of a lifetime of study by economist Fred Harrison www.sharetherents.org. For example, if you

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The People’s Budget No. 1

December 6, 2018December 6, 2018Uncategorized

The first of a new regular series of AGR commentaries from economist Fred Harrison of the Land Research Trust, designed by SLRG’s Ian Kirkwood, in which the interests of the peoples of the British Isles

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We need more enterprise and innovation; not less

October 8, 2018October 8, 2018Uncategorized

Eaxctly how do its proponents think stacking more tax on enterprise and innovation would ease any of the manifold UK economic or social crises?   Of course it wouldn’t: what is required is more enterprise and innovation; not

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North-South Divide can be healed with AGR/LVT

October 7, 2018October 7, 2018Uncategorized

  Q. How would the North-South Divide be healed with Annual Ground Rent/Land Value Tax? A. By collecting and distributing the returns (growing site values – biggest at the economic centre) on taxes invested in amenities

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Best chance since 1945 for a cross-party new start for the UK

October 5, 2018October 5, 2018Uncategorized

In Brussels Blitz or £500bn Dividend Fred Harrison and Ian Kirkwood discuss how post-Brexit Britain could flourish as never before. For 300 years the four nations of the United Kingdom laboured under a tax regime

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