The couple, who moved into a horsebox on the smallholding in 2009, have greenhouses, chickens, sheep and pigs and aim to live as self-sufficiently as they can.
Like the public benefits, the programs and policy incentive mechanisms for promoting self-generation and reduced consumption are sufficiently similar to warrant bundling these measures under the same regulatory umbrella.
Some supply siders argue that higher taxes on any form of income is self defeating since it slows economic activity sufficiently to reduce the tax take to the government.