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Curator: Alex HellingDebate ID: 149 Bibliography: My style of Government: The Thatcher years, Nicholas Ridley<br>The Euro: Should Britain join?, Anthony Browne<br>Nissan tells Blair 'join...
View ArticleThis house would impose an estate tax
An estate tax is a tax on a person's property at the time of death before it is transferred to anyone else. An estate tax is different from an inheritance tax, which is a tax on property one receives...
View ArticleThis house would tax aviation fuel.
The debate over whether international aviation should be taxed brings together two global problems: how to control emissions that cause climate change; and how to find additional funding for...
View ArticleThis House supports a progressive tax rate
Progressive taxation is a fiscal policy system in which wealthier people pay larger proportions of their earnings in taxes than do less well-off people. Generally speaking, states that implement...
View ArticleThis House Would introduce a flat tax
AN ARTFUL taxman, according to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, treasurer to Louis XIV, so plucks the goose as to obtain the most feathers for the least hissing.[1] The issue of how it is best and most fair to...
View ArticleThis House prefers its government Big and Beefy
The issue of big versus small government is a significant in the election campaigns of many countries – and has recently been the subject of many hysterical pronouncements in the US.read more
View ArticleThis House believes that Europe should weaken its austerity measures to...
On Saturday 5th May the French and Greeks went to the polls and both countries voted against austerity.read more
View ArticleThis House believes social deprivation causes crime.
Since the advent of modern social science, sociologists and criminologists have been preoccupied with finding the answer to what is the root cause of criminal (or deviant) behaviour and, therefore,...
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