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Brian has been a member since 2015 and is the secretary of Letchworth, Baldock and district branch in Hertfordshire. He describes himself as a 'sedentary activist

Penny power

By Brian Evans | Wed 27th May 2020 - 9:00 am

Someone wrote an amazing article on LDV a few weeks ago, proposing a kind of national transaction tax (I can’t recall the precise term he used) levied on every electronic payment made in the country. We must make millions of these across the nation every day for business and personal purposes. Moreover, at the infinitesimally low rate of 0.005% – is that a halfpenny on £100? the decimals baffle me – the product would finance a Universal Basic Income of something like £800 per person per month. OK, it’s not enough to live on, the argument goes, but even at …

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