Carbon Legacy - It's alive I tell you... alive!

Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Someone in there likes me (well, didn't see a problem with my petition):

Your petition has been approved by the Number 10 web team, and
is now available on the Number 10 website at the following
address:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Carbonlegacy/

Your petition reads:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to enable the
creation of a ‘Carbon Legacy’, as a direct, future
generation-benefiting substitute for Inheritance Tax

IHT debate boils down into 2 main areas. Individuals get
frustrated perceiving a major % of savings go not to securing
descendant’s futures, but to fund much that is... wasteful. To
Govt IHT is an historical plum too good to be denied, justified
by wealth being redistributed ‘for the common good’. Climate
change is accepted by a majority as the most serious issue we
face. Carbon Legacy is a fruitful compromise between entrenched
positions, which remain deadlocked. A no middleman bequest,
down to the IHT limit, donated to any initiative that is proven
to be tangibly DOING something to improve matters on a
measurable e-ROI, free from all but the most crucial
instruments of management/oversight. No ‘redirection’! Funds
straight to where most needed, to do the most good for the
future. Some devils in the detail, but doable with consensus.
In so doing it must surely satisfy both the needs and
aspirations of all sides.

Thanks for submitting your petition.

Now, if a lot of you would so good as to sign it, I, my kids and the rest (ok, most. Well, a lot , I'm sure) of the country's future generations will thank you.

Guardian - Let's get back on tax

If you can't take it with you, you don't want it to be squandered and you do want it to make the world a better place and of direct benefit for your ancestors, may I suggest: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Carbonlegacy/

BBC - More homes 'face inheritance tax'


Mugging the over-75s

You can't take it with you. But they don't get it. Future generations benefit.

Have I missed anything?

Telegraph - Trifling with protest

In the spirit of wanting it all ways, I have to concede that you should be able to have any petition you want, lest there be accusations of moderation (which is cute on a moderated blog).

However, in the great info overload scheme of things, part of me rather likes a bit of wood trimming to see the odd, worthy, tree