Comments on: What have they done with the old Rose and Crown? https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/03/what-have-they-done-with-the-old-rose-and-crown/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:11:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: VMS https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/03/what-have-they-done-with-the-old-rose-and-crown/comment-page-1/#comment-42222 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:02:04 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=9667#comment-42222 Damn! I was planning on visiting all 2000 of those closed pubs.

But more seriously, I can’t see how the statisticians are able to separate, with any degree of certainty, the effect of the tax increase on pub closures as opposed to all the other forces in the economic junble. The tax may be modelled as an ‘economic anchor’ (pure added cost), and if everything else were constant and if the tax were an independent variable, it would be easy to determine its effect. But everything else is NOT constant even if the tax is a pure independent variable.

Methinks the 2000 lost pubs are due to a combination of variables, and the tax hike is but one of them. Each variable is probably claimed as the straw that broke the camel’s back.

]]> By: Todd Rogers https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/03/what-have-they-done-with-the-old-rose-and-crown/comment-page-1/#comment-42186 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:48:01 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=9667#comment-42186 Let them drink cake!

My neighbors and I Some people I know make (and trade) wine and beer. We’veThey’ve yet to collect and remit ANY taxes.

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