Saturday, 5 March 2011

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Since the Scottish devolved body has its own revenue-raising power (which it has never used, after all the fuss to get it), the cost of extending these schemes nationwide should be met by reducing its block grant, with any shortfall to be made up by the use of that power. No losers there.
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4 comments:

  1. Don Roberto7 March 2011 at 12:54

    So why are you not demanding a reduction in the Welsh and Northern Irish grants - oh I forgot, you are more a Scotophobe than a Welshphobe.

    Like all those self-loathing part Czech Austrians that ran about in the 1920s--------

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  2. David Lindsay7 March 2011 at 17:01

    Wales and Northern Ireland have no fiscal powers of their own. Nor any desire for such, of course.

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  3. Don Roberto7 March 2011 at 17:14

    "Wales and Northern Ireland have no fiscal powers of their own. Nor any desire for such, of course."

    What you mean? In NI there is a campaign for control over corporation tax so it can compete with the south. CBI NI and Paisley, Robinson etc are backers of this. Not small fish by any means-----

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  4. David Lindsay7 March 2011 at 17:23

    Oh, that. Faintly farcical and doubtless doomed, recalling the foot and mouth crisis when David Trimble demanded that Ulster cattle be reclassifed as Irish.

    Faintly farcical and doubtless doomed especially, though not exclusively, because the EU and the IMF have their beady eyes on the very low rate of corporation tax in the Republic. But, more to the point, a campaign for a tax to be cut, and only cut.

    I don't know why you are against what I propose. Who would lose anything? And if you never want the tax power to be used, then why did you want it in the first place?

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