Feb 23 2007
The “white hot heat” of the London markets
Feb 23 2007
Published by John Redwood at 4:33 pm under Blog
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Could you please explain this a little more. We in the North West pay the same % of income tax on our earnings, we pay in many instances higher council tax rates, for example the last time I checked in 2001 in Lancashire a Band C house paid
John,
I’ve thought about this issue a bit over reecnt months; apart from an across-the-board reduction in personal and corporate taxation that we’d all like to see, do you think that there is merit in advocating further and additional cuts in personal and corporate taxation specifically in the poorer areas of the country (coupled with serious moves to cut the welfare roll and other non-core state spending) as a means to regenerate those areas and move them closer to self-sufficiency?
Arthurian Legend
p.s. I linked to you a couple of weeks’ ago…any return move?
Grrr….
You’re bigging up house price expectations. When people expect them to rise they buy more houses, that pushes demand up and prices up.
It’s bad enough being subjected to hours of ‘house porn’ on TV without MP’s fuelling the fire!