It also vowed to back efforts by the UK's leading gambling charity, GambleAware, to roll out more specialist clinics to help addicts, something the organisation has said could require a statutory levy on firms to address a funding shortfall.
Even if the new stadium is better than the old one, the worst seats should not require an extra levy.
Tax hikes, depending on the type of levy, can require a majority or two-thirds vote of the people.
A month before the WTO spectacle, voters horrified the political and corporate establishment by slashing the state's vehicle tax and requiring a plebiscite on all new levies.
Soon they will also be required to collect a levy to be spent on capturing and storing carbon underground.
With that in mind, it might be better to take a different approach based on the proposals of the Edinburgh and Oxford University groups – namely, that all extractors or importers of fossil fuels should be required to pay a levy that is defined not in cash but in carbon.
The Labour frontbench has a series of amendments down to require a report on the effectiveness of the bank levy, including the extent to which it is delivering on its stated aims, like moving banks away from riskier funding models and requiring HMRC to prepare a public register of banks paying the levy and the amount they have paid.
But they later "suggested that the property tax levy in question may not have required a vote of property owners" and requested more time to research it.
Mark Wickham-Jones, a professor of politics at Bristol University, said it was widely accepted that a shift to requiring union levy payers to make a positive decision to become an associate party member would reduce the number of affiliated union members dramatically, possibly to well below a tenth of the 2.3 million political levy payers currently affiliated to the party.
The levy, called parcel tax, will go before all voters living within the L.A. Unified School District and would require a two-thirds majority.
