Daylight robbery

Paul Edie (Platform, 2 September) would be well advised to look at the lack of affordable land underpinning the lack of affordable homes.

This lack of land availability, like the poverty he also comments upon, has its roots in a twin fiscal grand larceny that sees the state robbery of labour through income tax and other imposts on enterprise and brick and mortar property, combine with its evil twin on the other side of the fiscal coin, namely the private hijacking of publicly created land rental values.

His problem (like many other issues afflicting our economy at present) could be solved by retaining, in totality, all of these land rental values through their 100 per cent collection to replace all the above taxes/imposts, as the source of public revenue, in a recession-busting land-releasing surge of economic activity.

Ron Greer

Blair Atholl

Perthshire