"jgharston" wrote in message
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John Williamson wrote:
One fair method would be to ... charge each person for what they use...
Oh, didn't they try that? It was called the Poll Tax, IIRC, and got

But people /weren't/ charged for what they used, they were all
charged the same idential median amount.

thrown out very quickly. Or you could charge a local income tax, but
that would be too complicated to work out....

Local Income Tax is **** easy. HMRC already have all the figures,
indexed by local authority area. If HMRC don't have your details,
your income is below the taxable allowance, so you wouldn't be
paying anyway.

(Or, you're a member of the black economy, or you're one of a
small number of HM Forces or Merchant Seamen who are known
anomolies that get dealt with on an individual basis.)

Income tax is a daft as the Poll tax Land Valuation Tax is the best by a
million miles. The Single Tax. Set annually by the "value" of the "land".
You can't take land off-shore so easy and cheap to collect. You can't take
an Athens mansion off-shore, or one in Belgravia either. Income tax takes
away 30% of the tax in collection charges. Land value take prevents land
speculation - land speculation caused the 1929 and 2008 crashes. It pays
for infrastructure - as Hong Kong did building a metro.