Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
Are you aware that Arthur Donaldson was interred during the Second World War because it was believed that hewas a Nazi sympathiser https://infogalactic.com/info/Arthur_Donaldson
He was also Editor of the Forfar Despatch newspaper.
In my opinion including Local Income Tax to replace the Council Tax in the 2009:SNP manifesto was a con to try to get votes
The SNP leaders had never worked out the cost of a Local Income Tax and how it would be implemented in each Council area.
This simple solution is to replace the council tax with a local sales tax. If theyncan have a local sales tax in America surely it cannot be beyond the Scottish Parliament MSPs to introduce a local sales tax in Scotland especially as 76% of the total council tax expenditure is paid by the Scottish Government thanks to bloc grant from Westminster.
Local sales tax works if there are large distances between the centres of population For the central belt in Scoland there would be little chance of any element of variety. Residential areas would have little or no income so how would you compensate them. Retail centres like Edinburgh might find that instead of edge of town retail parks retailers moved to new hitherto uneploited areas where the sales tax was lower.
If you managed to buy a house when other you and your wife were working you could afford the mortgage. Now you are paying the equivalent amount in council tax, I think.