{"id":350,"date":"2017-03-09T05:33:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T05:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/?page_id=350"},"modified":"2017-04-26T15:10:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:10:12","slug":"introduction-agr-and-population","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/introduction-agr-and-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction: AGR and population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Had the \u2018land tax\u2019 embedded in the 1707 Treaty of Union been sustained, the Highland Clearances would not have occurred. These articles examine how Westminster\u2019s\u00a0substitute <em>arbitrary taxes<\/em> on work and enterprise could not be afforded at the economic periphery. Resources and people were (and are) sucked inexorably to the economic centres. It remains the\u00a0government&#8217;s choice today to sustain high <em>unearned<\/em> incomes for London site owners at the expense of peripheral UK society and culture. At the margin, citizens\u00a0must suffer poverty and die\u00a0up to 17 years early (e.g. Drumchapel males) \u2014 by Acts of Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had the \u2018land tax\u2019 embedded in the 1707 Treaty of Union been sustained, the Highland Clearances would not have occurred. These articles examine how Westminster\u2019s\u00a0substitute arbitrary taxes on work and enterprise could not be afforded at the economic periphery. Resources and people were (and are) sucked inexorably to the economic centres. It remains the\u00a0government&#8217;s choice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-350","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350","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=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}