58% and rising

[eric_sinclair]

Couple across the road earn 150,000 between them but pay less tax than the couple next door to me who earn less than 60k...

Their crime, saving up and working hard to get a slightly bigger house for their kids...

Whatever happened to the SNPs promise to abolish the “unfair council tax” as they put it.

17 years on from Sturgeon wanting to scrap it, yup it’s still here.

I agree the bands can be unfair, but it's still an improvement on the poll tax imo.

[GB72]

I agree the bands can be unfair, but it's still an improvement on the poll tax imo.

Rather have a tax system where everything is taxed on what you buy, like in Florida fir example...

Plus everyone that is here on holiday contributes as well....

Council tax grossly unfair

[islaydarkblue]

Rather have a tax system where everything is taxed on what you buy, like in Florida fir example...

Plus everyone that is here on holiday contributes as well....

Council tax grossly unfair

I previously suggested this in a previous post band I got shot down in flames.
A local sales tax is the fairest way as everyone who spends money in a local authority area contributes.
The people who live outwith the Dundee City Council area but do their shopping in Dundee would contribute to the cost of running Dundee City Council through a local sales tax.
In my opinion there are far too many local authorities in Scotland each employing far too many bosses on high salaries.
I would scrap all the local authorities and bring back the Regional Councils throughout Scotland. However this time I would not have District Councils as they were a waste of time and only introduced as a sop to the old Burgh councils such Monifieth Burgh Council and Carnoustie Burgh Council.

[Taintedice]

Where do you think the Scottish Government gets their money to deal with the current Covid-19 pandemic in Scotland. Despite what you may think is not from the SNP magic money tree.

She isn't primarily asking for more money for her government, she's asking for furlough to be extended to protect people's jobs. Like I said, your ignorance levels are horrific.

[Taintedice]

Thanks to the rules of the Barnett Formula there is free bus travel throughout Scotland for people aged 60 and over, free prescriptions for all in Scotland and a free eye test every two years for people aged between 16 and 59 with a yearly free eye test for people aged 60 and over who live in Scotland.
In England people aged 65 and over only get free bus travel in their local area. There are only free prescriptions for people aged 60 and over and everyone has to pay for their eye test.
It was recently reported that people in Scotland receive £1,462 per head more than people living in England.
At lot of people living in England especially those living in London and the South East would be delighted to see Scotland leave the U.K. as they would no longer have to subsidise the moaning, whingeing SNP MPs and their pro independence supporters.
An independent Scotland will be in a sorry state financially as al the wealth drains out of Edinburgh and moves down south to England. The management of the RBS have already set the ball rolling by changing the name of their company to Nat West Bank. The former RBS head office at Gogarburn will likely close down leaving a rapidly shrinking RBS branch network throughout Scotland.
In the early 1970’s there were 14 RBS branches in Dundee. Now in 2020 there just 2 RBS branches in Dundee.

horrific.

[Taintedice]

It has been well documented in the financial press that the taxes paid by people and businesses in the whole of Greater London and South East subsidises the rest of the U.K.
it is the wealthiest part of the U.K. by far.

England itself has a deficit so it's factually incorrect to say London/SE susidises the whole of the UK. You really are ignorant, aren't you.

[islaydarkblue]

England itself has a deficit so it's factually incorrect to say London/SE susidises the whole of the UK. You really are ignorant, aren't you.

It takes one to know one.

[Taintedice]

I won't live for another generation.

So I'm safe.

Independence will be settled one way or another in the next couple of years, political soundbites don't overrule written agreements. Once polling hits 60%, it's a fait accompli.

[Taintedice]

What did they do to Dundee?

Gave thousands the opportunity to get on the housing ladder?

Thank **** the socialist Dundee public didn't go along with that eh😉

"What's that oot the windae dad"....."ach just socialist principles son"......"Maggie Maggie Maggie out out out" 🙄

But Maggie was another who wasn't really a conservative just in the conservative party.

A bit like Tony Blair in reverse.

obviously that's not a serious question. The right to buy scheme wasn't thatcher's brainchild although it took off under her dictatorship and generally benefited the middle-classes far more. Too bad it ruined housing opportunities for every generation afterwards, people now living with their parents till well in their 30s and 40s.

[GB72]

obviously that's not a serious question. The right to buy scheme wasn't thatcher's brainchild although it took off under her dictatorship and generally benefited the middle-classes far more. Too bad it ruined housing opportunities for every generation afterwards, people now living with their parents till well in their 30s and 40s.

What percentage of 40 plus are still living with their parents?