{"id":2,"date":"2017-02-25T10:19:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T10:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-04-24T21:55:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T21:55:56","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenue reform is key to recovery: collecting economic rent (half of GDP!) instead of Scots&#8217; wages. That&#8217;s AGR."},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1672\" src=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hardhat2-1024x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hardhat2-1024x420.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hardhat2-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hardhat2-768x315.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hardhat2-1536x630.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hardhat2-2048x840.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hardhat2-825x338.jpg 825w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hardhat2-1320x541.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h5><a style=\"font-size: 1.25em;\" href=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/new-start-scotland-the-conversation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Have your say here<\/a><\/h5>\r\n<div id=\"js_o\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\r\n<div id=\"id_58bc2a93be8339e62228450\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SLRG.press_.rel_6.4.20.pdf\">SLRG Press Release here<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Have our governments chosen the tax policies that will enable our desperately required new start?<\/p>\r\n<p>Since we are as individuals the funders of government, we are each entitled to have our say in the <a href=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/new-start-scotland-the-conversation\/\">national conversation<\/a> about the policy options that will let Scotland avoid going back to <em>dismal business as usual<\/em> once the crisis has abated. Have your say at the <a href=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/new-start-scotland-the-conversation\/\">New Start Scotland Conversation<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/New-Start-Scotland.web_.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1354\" src=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/New-Start-Scotland-722x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/New-Start-Scotland-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/New-Start-Scotland-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/New-Start-Scotland-768x1089.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/New-Start-Scotland-825x1170.jpg 825w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/New-Start-Scotland.jpg 875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our new booklet <em><a href=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/New-Start-Scotland.web_.pdf\">New Start Scotland is up to us&#8230;<\/a><\/em> discusses how vigorous and widespread Scotland&#8217;s re-emergence could be \u2014 <em>if<\/em> we choose to validate our governments&#8217; rights to collect the rents of land and natural resources (that&#8217;s Annual Ground Rent &#8211; AGR) which are today hijacked by free-riders, leaving Scotland&#8217;s public services starved, life chances at their most unequal in a century, homes unaffordable for the many, and our environment in headlong retreat.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/new-start-scotland-the-conversation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Have your say here<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SLRG.press_.rel_6.4.20.pdf\">SLRG Press Release here<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have your say here SLRG Press Release here Have our governments chosen the tax policies that will enable our desperately required new start? Since we are as individuals the funders of government, we are each entitled to have our say in the national conversation about the policy options that will let Scotland avoid going back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":467,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}