Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

The Treasury mindset

There are strong arguments to suggest that the UK Treasury is too focused on maximizing tax revenues at the expense of broader goals such as economic growth, living standards, and fairness.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

Bureaucracy gone mad we tell ‘ee

An underlying and fundamental part of our analysis of what has gone wrong with this sceptered isle is that we simply have too much bureaucracy.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

So, where’s the beef here?

Waitrose has ruled out buying American beef and chicken as it insisted it would stand “shoulder-to-shoulder with our farmers” after Sir Keir Starmer’s US trade deal.

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Miles Saltiel Miles Saltiel

After the Rose Garden 6 - Foreign policy

This week’s post takes foreign policy as first serving the people of the UK, then our friends, then the rest of the world. Once this was known as “realism”.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Why tax the poorest?

There is a strong case for proposing that those living on the basic UK State Pension or the National Minimum Wage should be exempt from income tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs).

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Taxation is theft, of course

Taxation is collected under the threat of punishment such as fines, asset seizure, or imprisonment, making it non-consensual.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Celebrating Trafalgar Day

My colleague, Dr Eamonn Butler, will not like this proposal at all because he has expressed the view that Bank holidays are an anachronism that should be abolished, although he did once grudgingly tell the ASI staff that they could take Christmas morning off.

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