i would scrap local councils and tax all houses by square metre the bigger the property the higher the duty.
But what about houses in more prosperous areas?
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What about houses in poorer areas for that matter? You could end up with a 3 bedroom house in say Corby or Rochdale having higher rates than a £1 million shoebox flat in Chelsea.
For what it's worth my manifesto
Income tax would be scrapped and revenues raised through VAT , luxury goods would be charged higher rates afterall nobody really needs champagne or lambourginis.
An additional tax on goods would be an excessive transport tax levied on a sliding scale dependant on how far a product has travelled e.g. 0% under 300miles, 10% 300-500 miles 20% over 500 miles and so on. The incentive here would be to encourage people to buy their goods from British manufactures and make imports less attractive.
Similiary air lines would pay duty on fuel.
Investment in manufacturing and renewable energys to make us less reliant on the rest of the world.
Petrol rationing would be fazed in. Using already established hardware such as chip and pin drivers would have an account credited with say 250 gallons a year (45 to the gallon gives 11250 miles a year) . The account would be debited at a transation. Initially if you needed more over the 250 gallons or had forgotton your card additional fuel would be charged at a higher duty, say an extra 10-15p per litre.Intention here is to reduce pollution and congestion by reducing the amount of driving. Company vehicals would have a higher allowance but only if they were signwritten vans. Reps are little more than gloryfied fax machines so don't need more fuel.
This system has another advantage in that it could also be used for other things like sugar, fat, and alcohol.
Savings here are clear, less congestion and fewer pressures on services.
To top it up the railways and buses would be nationalized with reduced fares.
Banks would be heavily regulated to try to stop this boom and bust mentallity.
Prisions would become harsher and inmates made to work for their keep, sorting rubbish is an unpleasent task that springs to mind.% solid days of this and another 2 each week allowed for rehabilitation.
Life sentances to be scrapped and replaced with jail terms of 100+ years and the notion of punishment fitting the crime replaced with punishments being worse than the crime.
Immigration reduced and illegals removed and all new migrants to sign to the effect that they will be law abyding on penalty of them and their dependants or family being sent back home.
Acknowledgement that asylum seekers are treated poorly .Safe places to be built where they could live and work and be keept safe from "the bad guys" with barbed wire fences minefields and machine gun towers until it was safe to return home.
there's probably loads of things I missed but as it will only ever happen in my head it really doesn't matter.