300 years British?

[matgb]

Interesting discussion at publicansdecoy's about the anniversay of the Act of Union and the creation of Great Britain. David's concentrating on the West Lothian question, which I've done to death in the past, so instead I thought I'd discuss celebrating the anniversay. Any ideas, feel free to contribute either at voting_taktix or here because, y'know, comments=good.

On the subject of V-TX, kick starting it again; draxar transferred his article on hypothecated taxation, we've had a 'chat' about Europe (again) and I went through an article of Prof Fred Halliday's, who if I recall correctly taught David Armstrong, who was my Head of Department at Exeter. They're both a little dull and dry, unless you're an IR wonk, but we end up talking on the post about condoms, as always...

Oh yeah; I'd like more writers, either occasionally or regularly, the more people writing, the better it gets I think, there are two more coming on board soon, but there are loads of people reading this that write about politics sometimes; I'll start harassing people or sending invites soon...

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[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

Oh, taxation. That reminds me. You're the sort of chap who'd know about intelligent things.

Over at j4, we were discussing various things, and it turned briefly into a discussion of taxation (http://j4.livejournal.com/280348.html?thread=2964252#t2964252), and specifically the question of whether there's a name for a system of taxation where people pay the speculative cost to society for their actions. e.g. smoking is allowed, but the tax taken for smoking should (in theory) cover the cost of all future impact of smoking (such as the beds they'll take up in hospitals when being operated on for lung cancer). But without being exactly punitive i.e. it's not to discourage smoking, just to make people pay their fair share.

Obviously, there are massive holes in the plan (such as we have no idea what the future effect of doing certain things is e.g. sending men down coal mines), but I'd be interested to know if there's any name or theory on such an idea.

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