Bonds work better than loans. Besides who is making them? The banks or some other large corporation are the most likely maker of the loan. Isn’t the idea to get away from profit making organizations?

Green fees are making power harder for the poor to afford. They say that the renewable energy cost each uk family £250 per year in higher utility bills. There has been a stated policy of Labour to regularly raise the price of automotive fuel to discourage car use. Of course this has hit everyone and as a result raised all prices including food.

They also don’t meet demand or care about being efficient. Waste is the watch word for government run business.

Yes, got your point which was a good one. Tax could be used to recoup unfairly-generous pension benefits and things like that. But it suddenly made me wonder why nobody has suggested using it against energy utilities making windfall profits.

Greece is an example of what you want, when tax isn’t paid, socialist. You keep saying that cash is unimportant because you have so much of it!

I wasn’t talking about taxing companies. I was talking about offsetting the individual’s index-linked return with a tax.

(Also, it’s LEGAL for Parliament to pass anything, I’m trying to avoid setting certain bad precedents)

So…..You can’t allow Coops to borrow like other companies. I see.

“negation”

Ah yes, trade is evil blah blah.

And you don’t WANT to change the tax laws, because it lets you pay so little. Difference.

You want them to be unconstrained, unlike the 99%.

Keep saying that only a few people of your social status pay all they owe, you’re just restating well-known facts.

As for America, I didn’t call for their system. Taxing companies on business done here, now…

I just checked the Tesla car site and they say a replacement 85 kwh battery is $12,000 if you’ve had one for 8 years. That’s about £80 per kwh (say £1000 for 1 day’s home electricity in UK), but it’s a very cunning marketing proposition when you think about it. It easily beats the 2012 McKinsey forecast of price decline. It seems the Tesla battery is just a skipload of laptop batteries packed in fire-resistant goo. There is a Bosch home system that’s posher. Home batteries need less acceleration/structural strength/lightness and it’s clear that the market for home energy is so enticing given the current high price of grid baseload that a lot of development is going on. Google and Apple are involved. Lifetime of batteries responds to careful charging management.