{"id":706,"date":"2017-06-15T19:37:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T19:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/?p=706"},"modified":"2017-06-15T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T19:37:10","slug":"our-government-chooses-to-destroy-scottish-enterprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/our-government-chooses-to-destroy-scottish-enterprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Our government chooses to destroy Scottish enterprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned high streets are a highly visible cost we all pay for allowing our government to not collect Economic Rent. Less visible are the thousands of enterprises absent from areas away from the economic centres. Arbitrary taxation has destroyed not only the enterprises that should be in existence at the margin, but also the commumities and cultures those missing enterprises would have supported. In their place, our government has created rural and urban decay, a sub-class of social outcasts with no share in the value they help create (Economic Rent), an ousted rural population on the move to cities or abroad, poverty and inequality. The cost to the UK of all these &#8216;deadweight losses&#8217; \u2014 which would be completely avoided with AGR (Adam Smith) \u2014 is between \u00a30.5 and \u00a31 trillion a year of lost economic activity (Martin Feldstein). Scotland&#8217;s share of those losses is between \u00a336 and \u00a372 billion a year. And that is by government CHOICE. And no other factor.<\/p>\n<p><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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned high streets are a highly visible cost we all pay for allowing our government to not collect Economic Rent. Less visible are the thousands of enterprises absent from areas away from the economic centres. Arbitrary taxation has destroyed not only the enterprises that should be in existence at the margin, but also the commumities [&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-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}