tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post606467974926430506..comments2024-03-28T22:32:50.562+00:00Comments on Liberal England: More from Winston Churchill's radical daysJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-34031393670285128242007-10-10T03:15:00.000+01:002007-10-10T03:15:00.000+01:00PS - by the way - you can read the whole of Libera...PS - by the way - you can read the whole of Liberalism and the SOcial Problem at <A HREF="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18419" REL="nofollow">Project Gutenburg.</A>Jock Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15550558005508328017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-81808255666042692872007-10-10T00:57:00.000+01:002007-10-10T00:57:00.000+01:00The key "property" that Churchill was talking abot...The key "property" that Churchill was talking abotu here was land. See his <A HREF="http://www.1909.org.uk/tax_switch_1909" REL="nofollow">Edinburgh speech</A> on different types of property and how and why they ought to be taxed.<BR/><BR/>Of course that makes it doubly ironic that we reason for increasing thresholds for IHT is to try to take the family home out of it. That is precisely the one (and probably only) asset that counts as "associated with ideas of wrong and of unfairness, with processes of restriction and monopoly, and other forms of injury to the community".Jock Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15550558005508328017noreply@blogger.com