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Speed cameras – should Labour be exchanging our safety for a few votes?
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February 25, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith

Between 1998 and 2009, during the last a Labour government, the quantity of traffic rose by 15%, but there was …
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Category: Economics, Politics | Tags: GE2015, government intervention, Labour Party, market failure, michael dugher, speed cameras
Plain packaging on cigarettes – could it actually increase smoking?
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February 6, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith

Here’s an easy task. Explain to someone why anyone who opposes the policy of removing branding from cigarette packets must …
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Category: Economics | Tags: cigarettes, CONSERVATIVES, demerit goods, econ1, government failure, market failure, negative externalities, plain packaging
Laffer says tobacco taxes should be lower…but follow the money
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July 20, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith

When Arthur Laffer speaks about tax, people listen. So when he delivered his opinion that tobacco taxes could be too …
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Category: Economics | Tags: Arthur Laffer, demerit goods, excise duty, government failure, government intervention, IEA, indirect tax, Laffer curve, market failure, Smoking, tax, tobacco duty

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