A major land tax could bankroll a universal basic income.
(Adobe Stock) If you want to change things in a democracy, you need to persuade people. If you want to bring about radical change, you have to find ways of embedding radical policies in the common-sense morality of the average person. High taxes on the wealthy, for example, will never be voted in whilst taxation is seen by many in the UK as ‘the government taking our money off us’.
In the most extreme version of this sentiment, fans of Ayn Rand declare that ‘taxation is theft’, at least if […]
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