Should all Team GB athletes sing God Save The Queen?

[chem1st]

On Ilkla Moor bah't at? Scarborough fair?

 

 

 

And if Yorkshire was a Republic, all your problems would be solved! You wouldn't have to worry about 'government cutbacks' because the government of that other country wouldn't be sending you any money anyway.

 

You'd have all that land you could build houses on (or turn into allotments)

 

You could have free buses, cheap fags and cheap beer.

 

Chem1st could be Chancellor.:hihi:

 

The first thing to do would be to launch a demurrage currency and stimulate employment. Within 3 months we would have full employment. We could repave the roads, build housing, increase manufacturing etc. etc.

The second thing to do would be to instigate a land value tax.

The third thing would be to introduce a Universal citizens income for Yorkshire nationals.

 

People would soon pay taxes EARLY and we would have to think of novel ways to spend the 'means of exchange' collected in the form of tax, such as free buses, free healthcare, free gyms and public baths.

 

Eventually we would have to lower taxes or invest in foreign lands, for example we could build affordable housing for our now third world neighbours darn Sarth.

[Rupert_Baehr]

The first thing to do would be to launch a demurrage currency and stimulate employment. Within 3 months we would have full employment. We could repave the roads, build housing, increase manufacturing etc. etc.

 

Well, barter would save your citizens from paying high demurrage charges. Get rid of the currency as soon as you get it, buy goods, hoard those and swap them for other things you need.

 

Re-pave roads, build housing, increase manufacturing. All good ideas, but all require raw materials. Where are you going to get them and how are you going to pay for them?

 

The second thing to do would be to instigate a land value tax.

 

Would you have land owners left? - Anybody with land would probably sell it to the state (and emigrate.) If the People's Democratic Republic of South (or do you think you could get the lot to join?) Yorkshire tried to pay anything other than 'fair [pre-republic] market value' for the land, then no doubt there would be some expensive (international) lawsuits and some seizure of Yorkshire assets held elsewhere.

 

I suppose you could make your republic a 'closed'republic, like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea - but you might find you didn't have too many trading partners.

 

The third thing would be to introduce a Universal citizens income for Yorkshire nationals.

 

Ah-Ha! A 'Green' How much would the Universal citizens'income be and how would you get the funds to pay it?

 

People would soon pay taxes EARLY and we would have to think of novel ways to spend the 'means of exchange' collected in the form of tax, such as free buses, free healthcare, free gyms and public baths.

 

No they wouldn't - the cost of the healthcare alone would bankrupt you - and since it appears that in your utopia the public sector would be huge; if you're out of money what are all those public-sector employees going to live on?

 

Eventually we would have to lower taxes or invest in foreign lands, for example we could build affordable housing for our now third world neighbours darn Sarth.

 

:hihi: In your dreams! - The one thing you would have is 'England's The People's Democratic Republics Green and Pleasant Land.'

 

No fuel to run transport, so the roads would eventually crack and grass would grow up through them. No fuel to run industry, so clean air. Few people to clutter the place up (those who didn't emigrate (assuming somebody would take them) would die off fairly rapidly.

[SmithMatt]

As soon as the Queen stops being head of state, then we stop singing it. "Man says, man must do" - Chuvak, my Russian friend.