In 2004, the Greeks built magnificent stadiums for the Olympic games. They lie abandoned now, - the dream that they would be used as a spur to more sports facilities to drive on the fitness of the local people was just that, a very expensive dream.
London 2012 may be going in the same direction as [...] Read more »
Posts under ‘Economics’
How do they waste our money….?
‘Lifelong Conservative’ Throwing all Principles to The Winds and Voting for Obama
Larry Hunter claims he is a “lifelong conservative.” Yet, in his recent New York Daily News article, he also says he is voting for Barack Obama for president. The two simply cannot coexist. One has to be obliterated in favor of the other. And, regardless of the facile reasoning Hunter gives for his apostasy, this [...] Read more »
Support Harry’s Place Blogburst
Harry’s Place, a UK blog dedicated to promoting the ideals of freedom and democracy, is being sued by Mohammed Sawalha, the President of the British Muslim Initiative, which has been linked to Hamas and the Islamic Brotherhood, both terrorist organizations. The blog reports that Mr. Sawalha, according to the BBC…
“master minded much of Hamas’ [...] Read more »
Personal Carbon Trading - A response from the office of David Cameron (UK Tory leader)
We’ve all heard how carbon traders are getting rich at the expense of us all, and very very little is being achieved with this regarding carbon reduction.
OK, so now we have PERSONAL CARBON TRADING.
Personal carbon trading would allow individuals to surrender their credits as they made certain purchases that resulted in emissions, such [...] Read more »
Obama’s Payroll Tax Plan
Obama has announced his vision for a new payroll tax on those top 3% of Americans making $250,000 or more. Currently, social security payroll tax applies only to those making below $102,000.
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Fair government - a decent life - reasonable future.
This really follows on from my recent article TAXATION IS A DIRTY WORD, primarily because of the encouraging and agreeable comments received. I like what was written on Fair Tax, and that could be a way forward, but I will leave that to others to take up.
I’d like to expand on my thoughts here about [...] Read more »
Taxation is a dirty word
In an age when governments find it acceptable to spy on their own people, in an effort to “manage” them all better, taxation now ranks as a suppressive tool. It is a suppressive tool of the ruling class because the right to tax is abused extensively, with little real regard for a budgeted approach [...] Read more »
