--------- Forwarded Message --------- DATE: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:58 +0 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Palmerton) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Bill. Greetings. Forgive me, but your name is new to me. But you have asked me to comment, which I would like to on this and subsequent posts I have received from you. As an individual trying to make some sort of sense from our crazy world I came eventually to study the "dismal science" at an age when most were starting to look forward to their pensions. I come originally from Jersey in the channel Islands, which with my family we fled the war time occupation by the fascists. It was never clear to me why it was so difficult to return. I too accepted the reason to be that it was a tax haven, and all the rich wished to live there. A simplistic reason certainly. And false. But it was some time later that i learned more of its differences to the mainland, rooted in its history. Which turn out to be concerned with its method of creating its own money supply. Low taxation being a result. My involvement with trades union activity as a student nurse led me to the British Liberal party, which I have been a member of ever since. At that time Beverage was still around, and Keynes was not long dead, both influential Liberals, so their thinking was part of what was being passed on to the youngsters such as I. You say that you are not aware of the association between Georgism and British Liberalism? At the beginning of the twentieth Century there was a sizable group of MPs within the party who described themselves as "Single Taxers". They argued that the only taxation necessary to discharge the functions of the State could be levied from the taxation upon land alone. They were Georgists. In fact the election of 1906, which was a Liberal land slide victory, was fought largely upon the slogan "The land belongs to the people", the title of a song, sung to the tune "marching through Georgia" still sung lustily at our annual assemblies to this day. Unfortunately much of the detail, and even understanding of what it all means is now lost to most party members, with the last detailed policy issue being removed from the preamble to our constitution in the 1980s upon our merger into a new party with the Social Democrats. That policy was concerning the taxation of site values. Much more to say, but I think I would like to ask you about the Alaska situation, which from your subsequent posts I understand you are very familiar with. I gave some time to study this at the time of its inauguration, but getting accurate information at the time proved difficult, so I do not know the whole story, and I would now very much like to. Please keep in touch. Ken. --------- End Forwarded Message --------- ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84IaC.bcVIgP.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html --^----------------------------------------------------------------
