Man in a Shed: The pub

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Darling - your barred

Reactionary snob is taking Alistair Darlings attempts to raise tax, by driving us all to drink then taxing us for it , rather to heart. He's seen his way for revenge with a pub in Leith that have barred Darling.

The suggestion is that you ask you local pub to bar him ( we need a poster someone - preferably in pdf ).

Man in a Shed is happy to recommend this as his two favourite vices - beer and single malt whisky - have just become more expensive and he will be troubled by the idea of funding the bloated state sector whilst trying to relax at the end of a long hard day.

Pass on the idea if you approve !

Update: This is now getting up a head of steam. I heard it on Radio 5 this mornign and Guido has posted on it. Guido has a link to the Devil's A4 poster download suitable for pub windows

The pound in your pocket

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

“The trouble with theoretical economists is that they don't understand that when you have a deficit, you can only finance it by borrowing, and you've got to persuade people that it's worth lending money to you and that they'll get their money back... there's no way of escaping it.” Dennis Healey during the 1976 Stirling Crisis.

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of over-turning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, 1920.

"To preserve [the people's] independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America,1801-1809.

Inflation is taxation without legislation .. Milton Friedman