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George Hollingbery
on The Free Lunch
Prospective Conservative Parliamentary
candidate for Winchester (UK)
Winchester City Councillor.
The Free Lunch shakes
our complacency. The complex relationship between you the
taxpayer and you the receiver of public services goes unchallenged.
We believe it is unimaginable that we could do anything
to challenge it - it is far too complex even to begin to
think about such a thing. The Free Lunch is a book of truly
radical ideas, of real alternatives. It really challenges
the way we think about the world around us.
The book notes the strange
fact that non-productive wealth-producing assets like the
land for our houses, whose value we as owners have no part
in enhancing, are untaxed; whilst things we do to produce
wealth, such as working each day to look after our families,
are taxed. The book proposes that citizens take responsibility
for how they spend money that is created by our society.
Money would be given out in the most flexible way possible,
as cash. It would be up to you the citizen, as to how you
spend it on hospitalisation, on education, and so on, and
not down to the government.
I have real sympathy with that position. It seems to me
that unless we get some choice in how public services are
provided to us they are very unlikely ever to get better.
This book has some very very, big ideas.
I think a lot of you may find some of them too radical,
I find some of them quite difficult myself!
What is so refreshing
is that the author has take time to challenge the norm and
to think creatively. To show us that not only are there
other ways of doing things, but that they make real rational
sense even in the modern world and even with the structures
that we currently have.
I urge you to read The
Free Lunch. It is not an easy read…it is technical…it
is very nicely written, very well written, easily explained,
but not an easy read… not bath time reading! It is
full of ideas that are sufficiently challenging and sufficiently
interesting that you should take some time to look through,
and to really contemplate how the world works around you.
I commend the author for taking sufficient interest in politics
and in taxation and in the world around us to sit down and
write a book of such complexity. I applaud it.
John
Francis on The Free Lunch
Artist, Inventor, Marketing Consultant
Sometimes we are faced with something that challenges our
world view, that gets us flummoxed and we want to look the
other way, to avoid the issue, to stay in our comfort zone.
This fascinating book, The Free Lunch,
asks some very leading questions, it asks questions that
are rarely asked and they seriously upset our presuppositions.
It reveals the selfishness and shortsightedness of business
and government, and the scandalous outcomes of their bureaucratic,
meddlesome and paternalistic ways.
It also reveals some things that are totally
new and we exclaim ‘Why hasn’t anyone told me
this before! This is amazing!’
The Free Lunch brings together several
theories which are presented in a unique and original manner.
It creates a very lively thesis on the potential and on
the possibilities for wise and non-invasive government and
for economic justice, that relates directly to us in the
21st century.
Its investigations of facts and startling
conclusions could radically change the way some of us view
many aspects of functions of our society.
There is enough passion, information and
genuinely new ideas for a brand new political party many
times more exciting than anything we might have at the moment!
Winston Churchill who was a firm believer
in some of the ideas in this book said:
Men (and he was including women), occasionally stumble over
the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as
if nothing happened….
Margaret
Gould on The Free Lunch
Reporter: The Hampshire Chronicle
Click on: http://www.thisishampshire.net/hampshire/
archive/2002/12/27/WINCHESTER_NEWS_NEWS12ZM.html
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