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.

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!

I know what I'm going to do tonight to celebrate:

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!

Yeah, but they think, and are probably correct, that most of us are too stupid to realise that!

There are some nuances to the "flat rate" but basically, yes.

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.

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.