Coalition for Economic Justice launches No.10 e-petition: taxLess4more
The Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ), of which ALTER is a member, has launched a petition on the No.10 website, which reads:-
4 Mar 2010
The Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ), of which ALTER is a member, has launched a petition on the No.10 website, which reads:-
Opinion is warming towards land value taxation. See Guardian economics writer Larry Elliott's article yesterday, "Take on the City with a people's budget. Only one omission- Elliott should acknowlege that it is the Libdems, not Labour, who are leading the fight for socially just taxation.
Plaguarising the title of a piece by Matthew Norman in today's Independent, this is a first plug for a new website that could win across the disillusioned Millennium Generation to Lib Dems (on the basis of our modest switch of taxes off wealth creation onto property wealth accumulation)
The excellent political monthly Prospect has published an opinion piece that we hope will bring LVT to a wider audience. Written by Phillippe Legrain, who is to bring out a book "Afershock: reshaping the world economy after the crisis" in May, it gives a brief overview of the economic and social justice arguement. The article is at the Prospect webite (subcription only) but anyway the magazine is always worth buying. See http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/03/tax-the-ground-they-walk-on-2.
The origins of the "Mansion Tax", mentioned in Vince Cable's speech at Bournemouth last month, go back to early 2006, as a policy working group, the Lib Dem Tax Commission (TC), started serious work. Many Lib Dem MPs saw any continuing domestic property tax alongside "Axe The Tax" (i.e. scrapping of Council Tax) as (a) confusing for voters and (b) expensive to achieve.
ALTER Chair Tony Vickers was among over 2000 Lib Dems at the Special Federal Conference of Lib Dems in Birmingham on Sunday 16th May 2010 - a date for the history books, as the first appearance of a Liberal Cabinet Minister before a Party Conference for some 75 years.