Comments for ASI on the airwaves... at http://www.adamsmith.org , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.adamsmith.org Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:32:47 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/politics/asi-on-the-airwaves...-200808281951/#comment-922 oh it really is getting very tiresome isn't? How do New Labour expect us to take them seriously as aconomically competent if their backbenchers come out with this sort of stuff? - Lola Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:21:16 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/politics/asi-on-the-airwaves...-200808281951/#comment-875 Price increase has been long regarded as a source of “unearned income” or windfall profit. In Sri Lanka the marginal rate of tax on tea and other tree crops was 100%. That`s why tea bushes are old and SL tea in British teabags under 20%. This assumes milk is added to counteract tannin. Decades of export tax on tree crops was encouraged by Kaldor on grounds of inelastic supply. It helped cripple many economies in Africa and Asia. - Dr Alister McFarquhar Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:16:18 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/politics/asi-on-the-airwaves...-200808281951/#comment-873 Five year plan? yea Gods. And he's an MP and can vote on economic expenditure? - Toby Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:28:23 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/politics/asi-on-the-airwaves...-200808281951/#comment-872 The last point - the fact that the gummmint has already had an extra £8 billion (=£320 per household) is the most important of all. Where is this figure from? It agrees with my magic fag packet but it would be nice to have an 'official' figure. http://markwadsworth.blogspot.com/2008/08/ministers-consider-windfall-tax.html - Mark Wadsworth Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:04:04 +0100