Sooner or Later they'll Have to Admit it -Tax is a Bad Thing

Telegraph article here.

Darling has - sort of - scrapped the proposed hike in business rates. He said that this would valuable help to businesses in this time of crisis.

Listen you stupid prat - tax destroys returns and excessive tax destroys businesses. This is important because businesses create wealth. You don't create wealth. You destroy it.

So if cancelling - sort of - a tax rise is good for business clearly that applies all the time whatever the state of the economy.

You really are a bunch of Muppet's aren't you? If you weren't you'd have cut taxes by now on all of us.

Later

Bit of an edit in response to MW in the comments.

Sorry, yes!

I know that business rates is the 'least bad tax'. The point I am making is that all tax is bad and its take should be minimised if we want a successful and wealthy society.
At the moment the lefties have been able to sustain the argument that tax is a Good Thing. By cutting business rates, VAT etc what they are now tacitly admitting is that tax is a Bad Thing. Of course they still couch these 'cuts' in terms of 'benefits', as if it was their money in the first place!

If you are going to want a proper economy you will need to raise some tax, for defence, law and order etc etc. But you could do that without taxing the beejesus out of wealth creation. Maybe LVT is the answer - I am not tax expert enough to know - but what I do know is that excess overhead and bureaucracies kill wealth creating businesses. Bloated states and their bureaucracies are paid for by imprests on wealth creation. This has to stop.

Anti Labour is not Tory, Necessarily

We've moved on from Labour / Tory wars, despite New Labours determination to keep this phony war going. Whilst I concede that Cameron's henchmen are still 'Tory' as in having a propensity to trend toward oligarchical totalitarianism, many people who support his party have moved on, and if he gets elected will move him and his henchmen on as well.

What we have now is Labour / Anti Labour.

Labour, and New Labour in particular, are the party of big government, big tax 'n spend, big bureaucracy and big control. They trend to statist totalitarianism. They are anti freedom.

The opposition is now coalescing around a disparate and amorphous group that represent the opposite traits. In particular they represent freedom. They believe in small government, low taxes, small bureaucracy and the responsibility of the individual. But they also believe in the state as insurer and lender of last resort. They could be labelled compassionate libertarians. This coalition has been enabled and nourished by the shrinking of time and space provided by the Internet. Nowadays I don't just go down the pub to argue I can sit at my laptop in my kitchen and reach across national borders and develop global connections. This exchange of views and ideas is driving the new opposition to the Statists / Oligarchists.

However such a loose alliance is very difficult to deploy into a national parliament. You cannot stand on a party ticket and get party funding. Yet. But maybe, just maybe that could happen. And why not? Socialist International has been a movement across borders. Why not a new political movement shaped to fit the 21st century and the Internet age? A looser more individualistic independent movement with members sharing principles but standing as independent? Representing anti -Socialism, anti - Tory oligarchism, anti -cartelism, pro - freedom and responsibility.

You may think this unlikely, but witness Hannan's video. Does he really need the Tory party any more? His views are shared by millions he'll never meet from here to Timbuktu. He may have more in common with David Davis than Cameron. Why shouldn't they ally outside the Tory agenda and seek their funding and support from the Internet generation?

I think that New Labour sort of realise this. I could see it in the recent comments from Draper on the tellybox. He was determined to revert to the old classist common room wars of yesterday. Determined to keep this Labour / Tory war going. I've witnessed the same desperation on other lefty blogs and politicians as they start to realise that the game is up.

But the fight is not yet won. We still have to make this new paradigm work. It will take time and effort and resources to pull the world back into an era of renewed freedom and responsibility.

Are you up for it? I am.

Whilst I Remember

Listening to the sainted Hannan it struck me that he only had time to attack Brown on th debt failures of his tenure. The other terriffic failure is Browns taxation and wanton destruction of capital.

In may ways this is even worse than his debt binge. The economy needs capital. Capital is used to multiply the efforts of labour. It makes them more productive. Destroy it and productivity goes down. Browns tax 'n spend policies majored on stealth taxes on capital.

Dear Mr Darling....

Ipswich

26 March 2009

Dear Mr Darling

I trust that you are well and busy. It always good to have something useful to do I say.

First some family news. Since I last wrote much as changed at chez Lola. Miss Lola 1 has been working for an advertising company for some years now and very successful she and her company have been. But with the recent savage downturn her position looks more precarious by the day. And it's not cheap living in London. Miss Lola 2 is pushing hard to develop her book keeping business but having lost one client, a building company that recently failed, her main client now also looks dodgy. It's an entertainment business that has seen its turnover drop by 30% since January. This really looks like a savage recession. Miss Lola 3 is in shipping. All looks OK at the moment as she is in booze, but well, you never know. Miss Lola 4 is about to go to uni. I don't know if you've seen the costs recently? The tuition fees and accommodation costs are just eye watering. The poor kid will leave Uni with a shed load of debt.

Business is good for me. We have picked up a lot more work from clients who have seen a massive destruction of their capital and income in the last 11 years and are now desperate to preserve what they have left. It's not easy. Our turnover is down though, as a lot of it is geared to the capital markets, that have hugely, well, tanked recently.

Mind, that's enough of my problems. How are you getting on? It looks like you are having trouble with the neighbours again. I know that they are your friends and so on, but really the way that they have treated you. By the way, have you sorted out what you are going to do about the money? It was very handy you being able to walk into his job, a nice position in normal times, but it all looks a lot more challenging now. I thought you said that he had so sorted it all out that you were looking forward to a nice two to three years peace and quiet building up your pension and then, whoosh bang, you were off? Do you think that you'll be able to get the full service for your pension now? I must say from here it looks less and less likely.

Just going back to the money, have you, er, actually said anything yet? I know you said you were going to, but have you? I noticed that your mate Mervyn had a gentle go. Did you put him up to that? It had your gentleness about it.

I must say though it all seems so unfair. I've always thought that being the nice bloke you are, you would end up being put upon by someone. I know, I know, I don't mean to sound pitying, but you really should stand up for yourself a bit more. Now would seem like a good time to do so, don't you think?

Anyway, must dash. I have to empty the dishwasher and write some letters.

Look after yourself.

Regards

Lola

An Apology

I am sorry I am not erudite and witty like Stanislav.

I am sorry that I don't have Guido's ferreting and blogging skills.

I am sorry that I cannot write gossipy prose like Iain Dale.

I am sorry that I am not as clever and as educated as John Redwood.

I am sorry that I mispent my youth with cars and women - actually no I am not at all sorry about that - it was glorious. But I am sorry that I didn't learn what I should've when I had the chance.

I am sorry that lacking these skills I can only write poorly (mind you I can write a demon business letter).

But, dear reader, I am not sorry that I am inflicting all this on you. What else can I do?

When you get to the state of apoplectic fury that I have been driven to by the deceitful, witless, moronic, venal, arrogant, self serviving, sanctimonious, sleazy, thieving, lying, ugly, shrill, illiberal, controlling, centrist, nannying, finger wagging, hypocritical gits that masquerade as political leaders from the Labour Party and who are stealing my democratic power from me there is little else I can do but add my poor voice to the collective scream of the traditional English two word phrase, more excoriating as a multi useful expletive than possessed by any other language known to man; New Labour - fuck off.

"We'll do whatever it takes"

Every time Brown spouts his mantra "we'll do whatever it takes" I am waiting for someone to state the bleedin' obvious response....

Answer "Well then, since this is all your fault, and if you really want to do 'whatever it takes' why don't you fuck off and die?"

Please watch the Video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eorder%2Dorder%2Ecom%2F&feature=player_embedded


http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/Daniel_Hannan

Update

Of course this won't make a blind bit of difference especially when the BBC nor any other lefty broadcaster won't cover it - the distorting, propaganderising shits that they are. Hannan's moment will live on in the blogoshere, but how many of the great unwashed will see it? Well, bugger all really.

Christ it pisses me off. The lies and spin, the traducing of democracy. These New Labour shits don't just deserve to lose and election they deserve something a lot worse. And I'm not saying the current crop of Toryists are any better. They are cast from the same class mould - the political calls. Perhaps Marx or Mao were right. We need a continuous revolution to keep these shits in check.