Posts by dougbamford@mastodon.sdf.org
 (DIR) Post #APjGSptUYKoUMI0OBM by dougbamford@mastodon.sdf.org
       2022-11-18T13:11:05Z
       
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       Trying to get my head around Mastodon. Seems a bit like twitter but a little more complicated to begin with.
       
 (DIR) Post #AS2ZuB0EM6hYdXg6CW by dougbamford@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-01-26T15:51:37Z
       
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       I was asked to review the book "Political Philosophy and Taxation" for the British Tax Review. As it is behind a paywall I've put the text on my blog: https://dougstaxappeal.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-review-political-philosophy-and.html?spref=tw
       
 (DIR) Post #AS2bYvvvO7nHj7f7VQ by dougbamford@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-01-26T16:51:54Z
       
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       @publius. No I don't think there is anything about Henry George in this book. He doesn't fit into the schools discussed. Could have been discussed under libertarianism (left-libertarianism) but the authors of that chapter were clearly right-libertarians, like the editor of the book. There is a chapter on "democracy" but the proposals there seem completely opposed to democracy from my perspective - explicitly giving the rich more political power than they already do.
       
 (DIR) Post #AS2f0ErFR17I6MBco4 by dougbamford@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-01-26T17:05:57Z
       
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       @publius Henry George's land tax does get a brief discussiong in one section (pp231-5) of another book about taxes that I've just read: Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom Through the Ages by Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod.
       
 (DIR) Post #AS6EjjebrUUUW0aJkm by dougbamford@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-01-28T10:54:58Z
       
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       @publius I don't know about that history. Combining land with other capital inputs seems to follow from the marginalist revolution. But, even before then, Marx and Mill (1848) switched to 'nature' and 'capital' as inputs alongside labour, rather than land and labour.
       
 (DIR) Post #AsjSWqSKmcrHWiQOnI by dougbamford@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-03-12T11:00:16Z
       
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       @helenczerski tragic. Not investing in the future of humanity, US is instead attacking allies.😞
       
 (DIR) Post #B17dgvwmRXUHUXHMJ6 by dougbamford@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-12-10T23:28:00Z
       
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       What is the biggest problem in the world? - For the left it is inequality- For environmentalists it is climate change- For liberals it is the destruction of the rule of law - For the US right (if Elon is anything to go by) it is seemingly miscegenation