{"id":849,"date":"2017-12-19T11:19:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T11:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/?p=849"},"modified":"2017-12-19T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T11:24:22","slug":"over-one-third-of-our-socially-produced-surplus-was-privatizes-and-needs-to-be-reclaimed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/over-one-third-of-our-socially-produced-surplus-was-privatizes-and-needs-to-be-reclaimed\/","title":{"rendered":"Over one third of our socially produced surplus is privatized and needs to be reclaimed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Land owners at Westminster designed the current UK fiscal arrangement by which over\u00a0one third of our socially produced surplus (the red slice) is reserved for site owners. Not only does this explain our starved public services, but also inequality, social exclusion\/disintegration, cultural damage and premature deaths at the margin.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanism by which this monstrous theft from the public purse can be recovered is Annual Ground Rent (less well described as\u00a0Land Value Tax).<\/p>\n<p>Holyrood can make a start now by swapping devolved Income Tax for a locally collected Annual Ground Rent, which would also replace the Council Tax, Business rates and LBBT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/National-Income2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-850\" src=\"http:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/National-Income2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/National-Income2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/National-Income2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/National-Income2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/National-Income2-825x619.jpg 825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Land owners at Westminster designed the current UK fiscal arrangement by which over\u00a0one third of our socially produced surplus (the red slice) is reserved for site owners. Not only does this explain our starved public services, but also inequality, social exclusion\/disintegration, cultural damage and premature deaths at the margin. The mechanism by which this monstrous [&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-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slrg.scot\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}