Punitive taxes should be imposed on the unearned gains of private landlords who keep properties empty, more than 500,000 in the UK.
First, they are difficult to avoid because it is hard to move houses or land offshore; second, they are taxes on often unearned gains that ought to belong to the common wealth and not to individuals.
There is an easy way to avoid such unearned gains by top executives.
The donor class will fight to protect their unearned gains, using much of the wealth that has been upwardly redistributed to them.
Will we allow the weight of unearned gains and undeserved losses to break society, or will we shape outcomes to deliver on the promise that opening and connecting with one another is in all our best interests?
And we must understand that the brutality and inequalities created pain, suffering and loss, as well as unearned gains that carved deep scars into the very soul of America.
Arguably it is, inasmuch as Britain already has a long-established principle of taxing unearned capital gains, and inasmuch as Britain is home to a fair number of people sitting on a million quid's worth of wealth simply because they were adults in, say, 1965, and bought a house for, say, £15,000.
But the principle should be that all income, earned and unearned, from capital gain or sweat of brow, is taxed the same, whatever its source.
Governors in many states are targeting public employees pay and benefits as low hanging fruit, because it has appeared that the false argument that public employees are enjoying unearned benefits had gained traction.
He has lost two 3-0 decinions, in which three of the six runs were unearned, and he gained no decision in a game in which he allowed one run in eight innings.
Jane Ghosh Bristol It is extraordinary that the Institute of Economic Affairs chooses to take issue with the coalition for buying votes with pensioner bonds when governments of all parties have been buying votes from the same age group for decades with never-ending house price inflation which provides much larger unearned, untaxed capital gains.
