Quote Originally Posted by Deeranged View Post
I pay more than £12,000 PA into UK government coffers in the form of tax and NI which would be Scottish Government income if independent so it's not really bank rolling via The Barnett Formula is it? It's just returning my tax money to the authority that will spend it where it's being earned.
The £12,000 per annum you pay in tax and national insurance goes to subside all the people who do not pay tax and national insurance in the U.K. including Scotland.
Thanks to the Barnett Formula people living in Scotland currently receive a lot of perks which people living in the rest of the U.K. do not receive.
Free eye tests, free prescriptions for everyone, free bus travel throughout the whole of Scptland for people aged over 60 plus young people I think up to the age of 22.
People aged over 66 in England receive free bus travel in their own local area, not England wide.
In an independent Scotland all these perks would have to be paid from the income received from taxation collected by the Scottish Government tax department as the income from the Barnett Formula would have ended.