{"id":1680,"date":"2020-06-23T12:53:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T12:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2020-06-23T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T12:54:08","slug":"the-shame-of-embedded-scottish-and-uk-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/the-shame-of-embedded-scottish-and-uk-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"The shame of embedded Scottish and UK inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Embedded inequality, subsistence wages, impoverished public services, unsustainable debt, land speculation, forced economic migration and homelessness can be history&#8230;IF we so choose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shame-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1681\" width=\"760\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shame-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shame-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shame-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shame-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shame-2048x1355.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shame-825x546.jpg 825w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Shame-1320x873.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it any wonder our public revenue is inadequate? The owners of rent-yielding assets extract one fifth of the gross UK income for doing&#8230;nothing. That equates to a staggering 40% of what should be flowing into the UK public purse by collecting AGR\/LVT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if we fail to recognise the problem is &#8216;Rent-seeking&#8217; we will make little progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embedded inequality, subsistence wages, impoverished public services, unsustainable debt, land speculation, forced economic migration and homelessness can be history&#8230;IF we so choose. Is it any wonder our public revenue is inadequate? The owners of rent-yielding assets extract one fifth of the gross UK income for doing&#8230;nothing. That equates to a staggering 40% of what should [&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-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","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=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}