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Originally Posted by jfman
You're right benefits do cost money - £22 billion a year on housing benefit that does little to resolve the problem instead props up a buy to let housing market.
Scotland and Wales would have to make different choices on public expenditure yes, but where we differ is your assumption they couldn't make better choices more representative of their needs and populations.
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'We would make different choices' is just the standard cop-out answer. There are oodles of examples of countries of similar size and resource as Scotland or Wales where a more specific starting point could be made by way of comparison (though various other things like social attitudes and population health must be accounted for). I'd be interested to hear your views on which different choices, at work in other places, would work for Scotland.
I propose not indulging the Welsh angle any further in this thread incidentally - it's beyond silly.