Income taxes can and will drop to zero
Taxes on a company or and individual when they create wealth are pernicious and nowadays ultimately uncollectable. Tax on spending is far more equitable and far more efficient. The problem […]
George Osborne
Bruce on Economics!
Let’s start with a brilliant video featuring Arthur Laffer, one of the world’s very best Economists. Although it is about the USA, the lessons learned can be applied to any […]
How to better manage the British economy
One huge problem that the Chancellor has is that virtually all his policies presume the UK to be one homogeneous economy. That Drumchapel, Easterhouse and the Gorbals are just like […]
George Osborne is soaking the rich
To understand this article you have to understand two concepts. The first is the Laffer Curve. If a government increases a tax rate from a low level it will collect […]
Who on earth would ever vote Labour?
History has taught us, repeatedly, that voting Labour is always a form of self harm. Like shooting yourself in the foot with a 12 bore shotgun or like turkeys voting […]
Rochester and Strood. A great day for the Conservatives
Firstly in House of Commons politics this will have zero effect. Mark Reckless will be wearing a different badge in the House but he will be thinking and acting the […]
Are the Labour party in their death throes?
In Britain we have what is called a representative democracy, where each and every voter has a specific MP to look after their interests. Voting is in a simple first […]
Ed Balls doesn’t understand basic economics
In my industry, which is video games, large numbers of technical staff (who UK taxpayers had paid to educate) left to work in Canada and pay their taxes there. This […]
Redistribution of wealth is wrong
There are some people who by enterprise, risk taking, investment and hard work generate wealth. There are others who are lazy, feckless and uneducated and therefore poor. It is socialist […]
Why the Conservatives will win the 2015 General Election
If you average out the opinion polls on voting intention the Labour Party are consistently around 3% ahead of the Conservative party. Not only that, the Labour Party have two […]
Some good political memes
The Conservative party tries a bit to create and spread memes on the social media. But they could do a whole lot better. So I thought I would collect a […]
Why UKIP are in big trouble for the 2015 General Election
Just recently the BBC have been giving UKIP massive coverage, you would think that it is the second coming. Nigel Farage seems to be on every programme possible and […]