Re: Goosing Ganders

In message <871v7onhpz.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Nick <3-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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The more I think about this, the more complicated it gets. The town I
live in, is the town I elect the council of, but it's not the town my MP
represents (and, vv, I have no vote for the MP who represents the town).

(That must be _relatively_ unusual, though.)

Won't this just mean that prosperous towns - already getting lots of
benefit from well-off people living there and spending their money - get
even more, and less-well-off towns do even worse? And isn't this then
an even greater incentive for the well-off to live in the already
prosperous towns and shun the others, as they'll have to bear a lesser
proportion of the burden.

It sounds like a magnifier for inequalities.

But surely the present system already has that problem? At least the proposed would tax according to income rather than property, thus removing one sort of inequality. (OK, replacing one sort with another, but I think - even though it'd probably hurt me personally - fairer.)

Why not just increase national income tax (ah, that's why not) and then
dish it out proportional to the number of people in each town. So you
get some cross subsidy. Actually, isn't that what they already do?

Yes, they do - but you need _some_ link between local government selection and the actions (spending) of local politicians, otherwise there's no incentive for local politicians to be fiscally responsible.
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