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tcpipIt has become a bit of a tradition on Saturday to invite a couple of people over to Willsmere for a lunch, a good walk of the grounds and a yarn; this weekend was Lyle and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kremmen. With the latter there was some discussion on the Resource Super Profits Tax. In the course of the discussion it was evident I was taking an economics perspective (productivity is everything) and he was taking an investors perspective (return is everything). As an attempt to appeal from the former to the latter, I suggested (indeed, it is almost certain) that the return to mining company investors will actually be greater with the introduction of the RSPT but their proportion of their profits from resources will be less. That night went to a Labor Party quiz night and spent some time with Kew branch members; this Tuesday I am giving a presentation to them on the Henry Review.
Another issue of the Isocracy Newsletter has been released with an very interesting article on the global economic situation from Northeastern Federation Of Anarchist Communists. The Israeli attack on the humanitarian flotilla in international waters has received widespread condemnation; the initiator of the programme is a contributor to Isocracy. Good feedback still being received for the Isocracy AGM on June 12; I now have a contact in India who is interested in the project.
Great game of D&D last Monday night with a very nice combination of plot development and mythology. Swordbearer PBeM is pretty much underway with last touches of character generation for the stragglers coming in. With the GURPS Krononauts game cancelled today, we're all looking forward to a game of Britannia (which has some very clever features), and hopefully (once again) Quirks, if there is sufficient time.
kremmen. With the latter there was some discussion on the Resource Super Profits Tax. In the course of the discussion it was evident I was taking an economics perspective (productivity is everything) and he was taking an investors perspective (return is everything). As an attempt to appeal from the former to the latter, I suggested (indeed, it is almost certain) that the return to mining company investors will actually be greater with the introduction of the RSPT but their proportion of their profits from resources will be less. That night went to a Labor Party quiz night and spent some time with Kew branch members; this Tuesday I am giving a presentation to them on the Henry Review.Another issue of the Isocracy Newsletter has been released with an very interesting article on the global economic situation from Northeastern Federation Of Anarchist Communists. The Israeli attack on the humanitarian flotilla in international waters has received widespread condemnation; the initiator of the programme is a contributor to Isocracy. Good feedback still being received for the Isocracy AGM on June 12; I now have a contact in India who is interested in the project.
Great game of D&D last Monday night with a very nice combination of plot development and mythology. Swordbearer PBeM is pretty much underway with last touches of character generation for the stragglers coming in. With the GURPS Krononauts game cancelled today, we're all looking forward to a game of Britannia (which has some very clever features), and hopefully (once again) Quirks, if there is sufficient time.
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Date: 2010-06-07 04:25 am (UTC)As for the foreign property issue, I was referring to the general rather than the specific. Indeed, they were introduced to improve housing supply. Of course, there is not a political party in the country that explicitly notes - or seems to understand - the difference between land and housing, so the results are not surprising.