Comments on: The 50p rate & the pressing concerns of economists

By: Richard T

Richard T — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:36:10 +0000

I see you link to the Left Foot Forward post where you claim that Speccy Nelson wrongly attacked your triumphant claim of additional revenue courtesy of the 50p rate. several posters there have pointed out that Nelson was factually correct and you are factually wrong as regards HMRC payment on account rules.

Any comment on this?

By: Cahal Moran (@CahalMoran)

Cahal Moran (@CahalMoran) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:28:47 +0000

Lord Keynes’ blog is excellent, as is Robert Vienneau’s similarly flavoured blog:

http://robertvienneau.blogspot.com/

By: Cahal Moran (@CahalMoran)

Cahal Moran (@CahalMoran) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:26:59 +0000

Shame the entire field is corrupt from the ground up. There’s a reason mainstream economics completely ignores land, and that’s because it was funded by landlords.

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Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:02:18 +0000

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By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:15:33 +0000

Good post. The evidence for scrapping the 50p tax rate is poor, at best.

Incidentally, I checked your listed interests, and immediately thought of a blog that would interest you. It’s a in depth post keynesian blog:

http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/

Give it a go.

By: Peter Kunzmann

Peter Kunzmann — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:49:21 +0000

The union for actors lying down.

By: Dave Holden

Dave Holden — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:48:20 +0000

What’s “horizontal equity”?

By: J

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:55:52 +0000

A mansion tax would be hideous for horizontal equity.

By: Dave Holden

Dave Holden — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:47:04 +0000

The main problem I have with this is that the term “economist” would any longer confers a person with authority on economic matters.

Duncan, what are your opinions on the libdem’s mansion tax.

By: gastro george

gastro george — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:12:07 +0000

I’m not sure which is worse, the letter itself or the BBC choosing to lead with it on the day’s mainstream news programmes, coupled with such “even-handed” journalism that they punted that 50p would be removed eventually and the decision about timing was only political. Aren’t journalists meant to ask questions about evidence and effectiveness, you know, apply some form of critical facility?