Comments by "Henry Law" (@henrybn14ar) on "Boris To ABOLISH BBC TV Licence" video.
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The quality of your comments is slipping badly. You were superb before the election and up to 31 January. But now you are advocating two mutually exclusive policy aims. It is not unreasonable that property tax payable should be proportional to the value of the property, and this should apply at a national level. It is also unreasonable that a property tax should be based on values which are thirty years out of date. The relative values of properties in different areas has changed hugely since then, for example, due to the construction of new infrastructure. Some properties are loaded with too much tax, others are paying less than their fair share, and their owners have been free-riding.
Singapore is substantially funded by a property tax on land values, as is Taiwan, while in Hong Kong, there is no freehold ownership of land, and the government receives much of its revenue from the sale of 40 year leases. This is key to their remarkable success and why they sustain genuine enterprise capitalism whereas the UK economy creaks along, held down by rentier capitalism.
Please do some proper research so that you can enlighten your audience. Your comments today are misleading. You could usefully do a course in economics. The London School of Economic Science is solid on this subject - possibly the only place in London that is; they also teach the Indian system of philosophy known as Advaita Vedanta but that is a separate department and you do not need to have anything to do with it.
https://www.schoolofphilosophy.org/course-category/economics/
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