Dear George Osborne: how to help the country recover from a financial earthquake

Adrian Hoare

Further Reading: Ronald Burgess, Public Revenue without Taxation (Shepheard-Walwyn 1993) Argues that not only does taxation flout the principle of private property, but it ‘is a primal cause of both inflation and unemployment. Regardless of this, the freely elected governments of contemporary trading economies – with the acquiescence of their electorates – persist in raising the major part, if not all, of their revenues by means of taxation. The immediate cause of such action by governments, and the acquiescence of their electorates, is ignorance of any acceptable alternative method of raising sufficient public revenue.’ by Adrian Hoare George Osborne has invited the public’s views on what might be done to help the country out of its current financial crisis. It is to [...]