{"id":702,"date":"2017-06-15T09:45:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T09:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/?p=702"},"modified":"2017-06-15T09:45:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T09:45:25","slug":"its-government-thats-shutting-down-our-high-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/its-government-thats-shutting-down-our-high-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Government that&#8217;s shutting down our High Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js_2x2\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p>If society collected the Annual Ground Rent (i.e. LVT) our high streets would be fully occupied, because the site rental value is the amount a business can afford to pay \u2014 its full surplus. Arbitrary taxation demands more and so kills the businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Desolate high streets are just one devastating result of the Government choice not to collect socially-generated Annual Ground Rent.<\/p>\n<p>Site rental values are the Net Income of the country that can be collected IN FULL without any requirement to repress wealth-creating enterprises with taxes on employment or profits (Income Taxes, VAT, Corporation Tax etc).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_3x-2\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/article-0-02BFF1BB000004B0-303_634x403.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-703\" src=\"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/article-0-02BFF1BB000004B0-303_634x403-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/article-0-02BFF1BB000004B0-303_634x403-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/article-0-02BFF1BB000004B0-303_634x403.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If society collected the Annual Ground Rent (i.e. LVT) our high streets would be fully occupied, because the site rental value is the amount a business can afford to pay \u2014 its full surplus. Arbitrary taxation demands more and so kills the businesses. Desolate high streets are just one devastating result of the Government choice [&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-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}