John Cartmell wrote:
It's not the poll tax. Thatcher made sure no one could use that option again.

The problem with the present system is that it is too 'lumpy' (big steps) and
stops far too low. The old rateable value was far fairer - and there should
not be a cut-off point; someone with a 10 million GBP house should pay 10
times what someone with a 1 million house should pay.


This sound to me like 60's Socialist dogma. Tax the people with big
houses, big cars, big incomes, until they are as poor as an unemployed
tenant. Poll tax was a much better system, with people paying for the
services they use, with income taxes taking up the slack. Yes, it
needed some refinement, but was much better than the previous and
presently abused by central government systems.

If you want property taxes, then they should be set locally and without
any central government imposed limits. Democracy is rarely practiced in
the UK however.

Regards
Capitol