I surprised a debate about land tax is going. It seems to me that people simply want to tarmac this country end to end. What will it gain? It seems that people want mansion style homes with a swimming pool and sauna. If you want that go to America, Canada or Australia they have plenty of land. 

No one speaks of what happens if we keep building on farmland?. Has anyone ever though about impact of Climate Change on food production?

How about the future with dwindling oil and gas supplies, there will be more pressure on land for biofuels (i.e. grow crops to burn for fuel) and wind farms. Also reduction of land means we don't have enought land for tree to counteract CO2.

And thinking that TAX is a solution is nuts. What do you think the government will do with the money?. My local council spends thousands of pounds on hiring celebrities for their xmas party and they have awarded themselves a huge pay rise. And tax to pay for MPs duck pond?.

I do think that TAX should be fair, but I don't think that it should hurt entreprenuers. For instance, I was watching TV earlier today and saw a guy sell his pharmacetucal business and bugger off overseas to save on capital gains tax and inheritance tax. Why is n't the tax situation favourable to keep entrepreneurs in this country creating wealth. If you own a business, you also own premises i.e. land. . So any land related tax impacts businesses.

It sounds to me that most people don't have a clue about tax, it is a real pain in the a**. Certainly, if you are on PAYE, you are not touched by the complexity of our tax system. I have heard the tax books would reach a height of 5ft.

In my view, there have been significant failures in housing and finance policies and the government should have made every effort to stop house prices going up. It would have been better to tackle the root cause, rather then dealing with the symtoms of the current economic crisis and also with prices too high that people cannot get on the housing ladder.