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Slumber@Slumber200·
@LesBlair53 @admt62 Hmm. Depends on how you define subsidy. Renewables get more actual subsidies (cash transfers). Oil and gas benefits from tax breaks sometimes deemed subsidies but pretty normal business tax rules. And their tax rate is generally higher than any other business.
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Slumber@Slumber200·
@mdf200 Oil and gas, upstream and downstream, operate on cost curves. Expensive assets get canned / dont get developed. No one holds back capacity for redundancy. You want to move down the cost curve govt needs to reduce tax and /or offer incentives. But no one seems to want that either.
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Slumber@Slumber200·
@JillBelch I think its worth investigating but the problem is that it would kill investment.
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Slumber@Slumber200·
@ScotNational You think the minister for propaganda shouldn't be questioned?
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The National
The National@ScotNational·
Tomorrow's front page 📰 BBC slated over interview treatment of John Swinney
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Slumber@Slumber200·
@GMacdonaldSNP Well the French example wasn't exactly what seems to be being proposed and also wasn't successful (food inflation was still 8-12% in 2023 then fell as global inflation rolled over, along with the rest of the world). So yes, its a gimmick.
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Mikey@MikeyTheBuddie·
Given all the data, I’m sure that England will be better off as an independent nation. And I encourage them to stand alone. Not one single English MP agrees. But they all agree that Scotland cannot be independent. Hmm.
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JScott@JMrtarnowo·
@MikeyTheBuddie Similar to all those who protest about income tax in Scotland but I don’t see a convoy of people heading south .
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Slumber@Slumber200·
@Emr678 @alison_voy Plus, if you think brexit was a bad idea, why so you want to do the same thing on steroids? Make it make sense.
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Slumber@Slumber200·
@Emr678 @alison_voy Brexit was a terrible idea and definitely hasn't helped, but inflation has been like that globally due to oil and gas price spikes, and supply chain issues from covid, Ukraine and now middle east. Read some International news - it cost most incumbent govts their jobs in 2023/4/5
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Slumber@Slumber200·
@alison_voy @GearoidUi @ShiningWire @danielgoyal Eh? The OP said we vote for socialists. The reply said name a successful socialist country. You named a bunch of market capitalists with large welfare states, which is pretty much what we are. Except OP and SNP seem to hate the capitalist part, which is maybe why we're so fucked.
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Dr Dan Goyal@danielgoyal·
Scotland hasn’t voted for a right wing government since 1955 Yet since then we have spent 47 years under right wing rule Now we are facing being ruled by a far right UK Party…. despite voting overwhelmingly for a socialist party. Do you blame us for seeking Independence?
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Slumber@Slumber200·
@ShiningWire @danielgoyal Scandinavians pay more tax across the board, and the more you pay in, the more you get out. Scottish version is to have millions of people pay nothing and get everything. Scandi's also have some brilliant companies - they're in no way against capitalism.
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TheShiningWire@ShiningWire·
@danielgoyal Scandinavian countries are not socialist. We have higher tax rates than they do. You think socialism works well do you? No hunger or poverty in a socialist country? Try asking folks in Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela. You’re so stupid you don’t even know you’re stupid.
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Slumber@Slumber200·
@Johni1967 @chicco650 @danielgoyal Gemini is rubbish. Check the links. In fact, if you look to the bottom of your right hand screen shot the Scottish govt says 921k people received benefits - twice the number you highlight. All sources support higher benefits in scotland vs england, but difficult to compare.
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Johni@Johni1967·
@chicco650 @danielgoyal Yes. 12% of the uk on benefits compared with 8% in Scotland, yet Scotland is somehow responsible for 10.8% of the uk total
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Johni@Johni1967·
@Scotland2Philly @danielgoyal Normalisation isn't nationalism. Normalisation is running your own country. Running your own country doesn't mean discrimination
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Slumber@Slumber200·
@Wilson34David @danielgoyal Bollocks. If by right wing you mean lower tax, lower spending it would be almost inevitable - we'd have to balance our budget. Would likely try higher tax first, then when all high earners buggered off and made it worse (think uk in 70s), the next gov would cut tax & spend.
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Slumber@Slumber200·
@tigerloun @DW8530 @danielgoyal I'd happily see NHS staff on higher wages. Its achievable just now because scotland runs a massive deficit. Under independence we'd need to grow rapidly or public spending would be slashed. Unless u think we could just 'tax the rich' to pay?
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Slumber@Slumber200·
@VoDevlin @khris_mr @danielgoyal Yes, its kinda like that. But much, much more integrated. 300 years. Full monetary union. A single solitary country, with some devolved powers, common in many countries. So if you think leaving the EU was bad wtf is the argument for breaking up Britain?
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Stoned Holy Roller@VoDevlin·
@khris_mr @danielgoyal is it kinda like when we were in the European Union but were pulled out of it against our wishes by being allied to English Racists & Xenophobes? More Scots voted for that Union than the one that was foisted on us 300 years ago by bribery & coercion!
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Slumber@Slumber200·
@ja_SONS @danielgoyal 2024 2025 deficit was 11.6% (5.2% rUk). Most of the 1.9% YoY worsening was due spending increasing by 1.2% of GDP. And what's the promise ahead? More freebies. Not sustainable if independent without rapid growth.
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Slumber@Slumber200·
@ja_SONS @danielgoyal The deficit has been ~10% last 3 years, 2x the rUK deficit - so even if you take out UK allocations its obvious that scotland is outspending. And you couldn't take out all UK allocation. Maybe some national debt and parts of defence. But iScot still needs its own defence.
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