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Originally Posted by jfman
Old Boy your seeming ignorance to Scottish politics knows no bounds. You continue to slur the SNP as 'left wing', you've dropped in a Venezuela reference just to cross another one off the bingo card.
It's unfortunately the fact you are so far to the right that you become apoplectic at the notion that the state more effectively carries out and funds some roles that private sector parasites drain as much profits as they can at unsustainable rates then come crawling back for corporate socialism.
Again I extent my invitation for you to come and share your ignorance with us next May.
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Again what the SNP would vote for in London doesn't represent the economics of an independent Scotland.
You can run an economy in the interests of London and the South East with outliers. You present it as a zero sum game - as always a simplistic and straightforward narrative that doesn't consider the scale of what you are taking about.
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They were talking about taxation in an independent Scotland.
From my previous link and quote.
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In the longer-distance are considerations over what taxation policy would look like in an independent Scotland. The May 2018 report of the SNP’s Sustainable Growth Commission was pitched as a reset to the economic case set out in the government’s 2014 White Paper on Scottish independence. The commission recommended a ‘comprehensive review’ of the Scottish taxation system after independence to improve the “simplicity, neutrality and flexibility” of the country’s future taxation arrangements. But it considered that the current revenues raised through tax were ‘sufficient at present’ to fund all devolved services plus welfare and pensions.
The commission also recommended a ‘careful’ assessment of the impact of business taxation on economic growth performance, with a recommendation that corporation tax levels remain on par with those of the rest of the UK. This particular recommendation was noteworthy at the time as it marked a significant departure from the SNP’s pre-2014 policy to reduce corporation tax levels as a means of attracting investment into an independent Scotland.
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The "rest of the UK" bit, states that they ARE referring to Scotland only tax policies. Where is there ANY evidence that current official SNP policy is to reduce corporation tax? I can't find any, and you are not providing any evidence of your claims.
So did those Scots Blair, Brown, and Darling also disadvantage Scottish businesses? Any supposed "disadvantage" would also apply in the rest of London and the South East. The claim that inward investment is needed to solve the "problem", is admitting that the solution
cannot come from existing businesses, and that new businesses are needed. That is not a sign that existing businesses are being hampered by London or anywhere else, except by Scotland itself.