Month: June 2020

Embedded inequality, subsistence wages, impoverished public services, unsustainable debt, land speculation, forced economic migration and homelessness can be history…IF we so choose. Is it any wonder our public revenue is inadequate? The owners of rent-yielding

It is wrong to believe that we should revert to live as we did before the pandemic. The statistics of its incidence show that the poorest people have suffered far more than the rich and

Common Weal has published Resilience Economics: An Economic Model for Scotland’s Economy. https://commonweal.scot/…/2020…/Resilience%20Economics_0.pdf The authors present an overview of the current and historic problems Scotland has endured and a call for a better future using

Writer Bill Paterson calls for the revenue reform desperately needed in Scotland: AGR/LVT. https://www.scottishreview.net/BillPaterson527a.html?utm_source=Sign-Up.to&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8427-399012-COVID-19%3A+we+need+leaders+who+put+the+welfare+of+all+people+first

You’d need a good reason to consider moving tax from wages to site rents. The good reason is the avoidable DEADWEIGHT LOSS of at least £500 billion a year suffered by the UK. Scotland’s share