Valentin Boboc
857 posts
@doktor_val
Senior Economist @iealondon - Formerly HMT and DBT - Mathematician and MTG enthusiast - Views my own.
The following HMRC tax receipts have gone ‘down’ since Labour ‘increased’ their rates: 1. Capital Gains Tax (people just sold fewer assets) 2. North Sea oil & gas (people invested less because of 78% windfall tax) 3. National Insurance (people hired less staff) @CutMyTaxUK
economists choosing a colloquial word widely understood by millions and using it a novel, technical sense borderline contrary to its common purpose to ensure the field remains misunderstood and hated
Treasury has revised down the tobacco tax revenue once again, but still forecasting that things will level out somewhat (NB consider this as an indicator of legal tobacco sales as opposed to illicit)
Here’s a so-called “economist” from Gary Stevenson’s Patriotic Millionaires saying “levelling the playing field” matters more than growth because of “resentfulness” They would rather the poor were poorer provided the rich were less rich
Denis Healey, one of six formidable candidates in Labour's 1976 leadership election, was a grammar school boy from Yorkshire who achieved a double first in classics at Oxford, served in the second world war (including as beachmaster at the Battle of Anzio), was mentioned in dispatches, demobbed as a major, spoke several foreign languages, and was a gifted amateur painter and pianist and all-round aficionado of the arts. My piece examining the decline in calibre of British parliamentarians. paulembery.com/p/titans-and-p…
scotland just keeps being fucking great
How many voters genuinely care about the planning system? Seriously. What is wrong with these people.
