It’s time to loosen up the ‘Strict to Buy’ scheme

The Help to Buy scheme could be doing more to help property buyers on the margins

I eventually got to watch Christian Bale’s take on Dick Cheney in the film Vice last weekend; I’m a bit behind on the movie front. Spoiler alert! In one scene, the veep attends an “Americans for Tax Reform Wednesday Meeting” which had been started years earlier by Grover Norquist. A marketing guru explains the “breakthrough” made to convince the American public to oppose the estate tax: simply call it the more morbid “death ...