From: john boyle 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Lib Dems to scrap council tax
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:03:31 +0100

In message , Alex Butcher 
 writes
>On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:51:54 +0100, john boyle wrote:
>
>> In message , Alex Butcher
>>  writes
>>>Not quite, because a local income tax would be directly based on ability
>>>to pay.
>>
>> NO.
>>
>> Income tax, local or otherwise, is linked only to income, NOT ability to
>> pay.
>>
>> 'Income' is not the same as 'ability to pay'.
>
>OK, but it's more related to ability to pay than the poll tax was, or the
>council tax is. x% of nothing is nothing.

I accept your use of the word 'more', in replacement of your original 
word 'directly'.

BTW, as food is the staple of life, do you think food should be priced 
by ability to pay?
-- 
john boyle