{"id":1123,"date":"2018-09-11T10:15:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T10:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2018-10-05T09:33:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T09:33:05","slug":"is-the-scottish-government-a-public-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/is-the-scottish-government-a-public-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Scottish Government a public body?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scot Gov, one of the 50 actions you promised in 2016 was to &#8220;place a new duty on public bodies to consider the impact their decisions could have on poverty and disadvantage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scot Gov, are you a public body?<\/p>\n<p>If so, why are you choosing to persist with Income Tax, inflicting deadweight losses on Scots to the tune of at least \u00a312bn a year, when there is an alternative source of revenue (AGR\/LVT) which inflicts none?<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>You are choosing to sustain and increase AVOIDABLE poverty and disadvantage for Scots in blatant disregard of the fine words penned in your Fairer Scotland Action Plan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/FairerScotland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;-U&quot;}\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\" data-lynx-uri=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.scot%2FFairerScotland&amp;h=AT1TFWiPQT80z-HkgcBj_CV86SY1pEoe18rh63VMeuzo9Y_P7BDurji48kkgX_p-wNRjtqEomLuROeh9aVoOWg-WmDE6ppFQ729FaGDUlCB2IBhFvjkfy1EadGk4QRRw-i5Z3k8EI9obsGfkzzY5lIC4DPVu7XSv-w3Oh2kPZ92WtUnSuE5nyd3b7GImYX0XKa7OBIxcBmY1iMf0oq3X0er6TFOjwrDySUnMxrPw09LcnVq2kWYdBuCrP0KeaqtsjghVfnyJMCtwCl6n-ZdgzlBogRVVLT805OFrqC21vS4DXBFg43tCBVADgTUS8ShTDNfiYMbEkiivD_3RII3TCJSsK7URxOw4-kJIrVGhQhiD-StTdSLJIZ915Tg-WK1ZImpNwfk0ErAotlQhK9E-tprGm2oHBEiMUqumB0gpeiuCkR7y\">https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/FairerScotland<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scot Gov, one of the 50 actions you promised in 2016 was to &#8220;place a new duty on public bodies to consider the impact their decisions could have on poverty and disadvantage.&#8221; Scot Gov, are you a public body? If so, why are you choosing to persist with Income Tax, inflicting deadweight losses on Scots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}