Hallelujah!

You didn't have me down as some happy clappy evangelical did you? No, you'd be quite right. So this is just a little celebration of "Tax Freedom Day".

"Hallelujah" was the cry of the Hebrews' slaves when, in the year of the Jubilee, those who had had to sell themselves into servitude or give away their lands to keep themselves afloat were freed and their lands returned to the common wealth for redistribution.

Of course "Tax Freedom Day" is a bit of nonsense. It helps perhaps to see just how much we have taken from us but in reality, if we make a little more in the second half of the year, they'll take a little more all the same.  And what the Adam Smith Institute, who organize this little wheeze, won't tell you is that their eponymous hero himself was one of ours, a supporter of Land Value Tax.

Taxes on our labour make us peons to the state. How wrong James Thomson was!