Jock Coats 🔰🏴⩜
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Jock Coats 🔰🏴⩜
@freetobealiberal.blog
Georgist, free-market anarchist, Oxford, UK

Also, Moodler, #HigherEd, #EdTech for work

#abolishtaxes
#sharetherents
#makepovertyhistory
#superchargetheeconomy
#valueourplanet
Nearly a third of the city's households have no access to a car. If only we could find a way of either matching homes with parking to households with cars or making it prohibitively expensive for people to steal a five meter by three meter stretch of the public highway to store their contraption on.
December 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I wish the companies and county would come up with a route numbering system whereby you could tell immediately which of them is running a particular service. Had a minor panic there because I thought they had dropped 100 and 700!
November 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I know what I'm going to do tonight to celebrate:
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It's all theatre isn't it. I'm sure they don't really believe 205,000 either. But saying "sufficient to fill the jobs that need filling without depressing wages" is a fine economic statement but means nothing to a shallow voter!
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Yeah, but they think, and are probably correct, that most of us are too stupid to realise that!
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
There are some nuances to the "flat rate" but basically, yes.
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Basically his plan doesn't touch land vs improvement. It just makes our main property tax genuinely proportional across the country to *property* values. And since the main difference between two properties in different place is land/location. People would therefore begin to understand land better.
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Have you had a look at fairershare.org.uk

Granted it is not LVT. But the founder of he campaign is an avid Georgist and thinks this would be a good way into it.

Me, of course, I wouldn't just do Council Tax, but absolutely everything except perhaps "sin" taxes which aren't there for revenue.
Council tax is broken. Help us fix it. - Fairer Share Campaign
Fairer Share - the campaign to abolish Council Tax and Stamp Duty. Our Proportional Property Tax will benefit 18 million households up and down the country.
fairershare.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM