Tax Benefits for Scotland...Is it fair?

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Here are some of the Benefits that Scotland enjoy.....But England do not

• Free University Tuition Fees
• Free Home care for the elderly
• Free Prescriptions from 2011

The above benefits are funded by the higher tax benefits that Scotland receive per capita compared to England.

In a nutshell...Your taxes being paid in England pay for the benefits that Scotland currently receive.

Scotland receive 10% of the UK's Tax for only 8% of the UK's population.

• Identifiable public spending per head in England is £7,535 pa (2007-08). But in Scotland it is £9,179.....that is 22 per cent (£1,644) higher, Wales 14 per cent (£1,042) higher, and Northern Ireland an extraordinary 30 per cent (£2,254) higher.

• Just over the last two decades (since 1985-86), higher spending in the three devolved territories has cost UK taxpayers a cumulative £200 billion (£102 billion in Scotland; £43 billion in Wales; £57 billion in Northern Ireland).

• North Sea Oil has not funded the Scottish spending gap, despite Scottish Nationalist claims to the contrary. In only five of the last 23 years have North Sea Oil receipts exceeded the cost of higher funding paid to Scotland. Even with current high oil prices, the income from the Scottish share of North Sea Oil only just covers the spending gap, and North Sea Oil output is projected to fall by 50 per cent by 2020.

Question is......are you happy for Scotland to be benefiting from services such as….Free University Tuition Fees, Free Home care for the elderly, Free Prescriptions from 2011, knowing that it's your Taxes that are paying for them?

Do you receive these benefits ?????

 

[Mad Cyril]

Even with all that government cash many Scots prefer to drink super strength lager/cider outside English railway stations rather than live in the motherland.

I say give them more.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I would also like to add that I do not pay taxes for the benefit of myself, I pay them for the benefit of everybody in the UK.

Naturally some people (in an ideal world those that genuinely need it) will receive more from the state than others.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Even with all that government cash many Scots prefer to drink super strength lager/cider outside English railway stations rather than live in the motherland.

I say give them more.

Something tells me that you are just not taking this seriously!!

;)

 

[steveo]

I would also like to add that I do not pay taxes for the benefit of myself, I pay them for the benefit of everybody in the UK.

I would disagree with you Cyril. You pay them because you have to. If you didn't have to pay them but could donate the money to charity, I would imagine it would benefit a completely different bunch of people than your taxes do at the moment.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

I would also like to add that I do not pay taxes for the benefit of myself, I pay them for the benefit of everybody in the UK.

Naturally some people (in an ideal world those that genuinely need it) will receive more from the state than others.

Should it not be worked out that it is distributed equally?

Why are Scottish Students more deserving of Free Tuition fees and English students aren't.

Are the English population of elderly folk worth less?

Do we not have a right to Free prescription fees?

 

[steveo]

Seems it’s all part of the lets look after everyone else so they can all take the **** English mentality these days.

They have a Parliament which English people can't vote in, but they vote in The General Election. If Scotland had not been able to vote in the last General Election, we would not have had a Labour Government.

Most Jocks seem to have a natural dislike/mistrust/hatred of England and the English, but plenty live here and earn their living here.

White Englishman loses out again, but who cares, its been happening for years.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Seems it’s all part of the lets look after everyone else so they can all take the **** English mentality these days.

They have a Parliament which English people can't vote in, but they vote in The General Election. If Scotland had not been able to vote in the last General Election, we would not have had a Labour Government.

Most Jocks seem to have a natural dislike/mistrust/hatred of England and the English, but plenty live here and earn their living here.

White Englishman loses out again, but who cares, its been happening for years.

I can not see why a campaign can not be started to champion an Independent England.

 

[South Bank Hank]

Should it not be worked out that it is distributed equally?

Why are Scottish Students more deserving of Free Tuition fees and English students aren't.

Are the English population of elderly folk worth less?

Do we not have a right to Free prescription fees?

I blame Mel Gibson.

 

[steveo]

I can not see why a campaign can not be started to champion an Independent England.

Too many bleeding hearts wouldnt allow it.

England for the English is gone, finished, never to return. France for the English is probably more likely to happen.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Something tells me that you are just not taking this seriously!!

;)

I watched Gregory's Girl last night and they really do seem to have an appalling standard of living.

 

[steveo]

I blame Mel Gibson.

Bloody Aussies.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Too many bleeding hearts wouldnt allow it.

England for the English is gone, finished, never to return. France for the English is probably more likely to happen.

The UK is like 4 guys going down the pub.....England being the tallest out of all 4 and then equal amounts of money being put in to a whip round, and the tall guy getting half a pint of beer whilst the other 3 all get a pint each!!!!

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

I blame Mel Gibson.

It should be.........

We will take your taxes
But you will never have our Benefits

 

[steveo]

equal amounts of money being put in to a whip round,

Thats wrong to start with.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Thats wrong to start with.

Very true.........the Tall guy puts in a fiver as the other 3 put in 50p each and still get a full pint as the tall guys gets his half pint and is blindly grateful!!

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Here are some of the Benefits that Scotland enjoy.....But England do not

• Free University Tuition Fees
• Free Home care for the elderly
• Free Prescriptions from 2011

The above benefits are funded by the higher tax benefits that Scotland receive per capita compared to England.

In a nutshell...Your taxes being paid in England pay for the benefits that Scotland currently receive.

Scotland receive 10% of the UK's Tax for only 8% of the UK's population.

• Identifiable public spending per head in England is £7,535 pa (2007-08). But in Scotland it is £9,179.....that is 22 per cent (£1,644) higher, Wales 14 per cent (£1,042) higher, and Northern Ireland an extraordinary 30 per cent (£2,254) higher.

• Just over the last two decades (since 1985-86), higher spending in the three devolved territories has cost UK taxpayers a cumulative £200 billion (£102 billion in Scotland; £43 billion in Wales; £57 billion in Northern Ireland).

• North Sea Oil has not funded the Scottish spending gap, despite Scottish Nationalist claims to the contrary. In only five of the last 23 years have North Sea Oil receipts exceeded the cost of higher funding paid to Scotland. Even with current high oil prices, the income from the Scottish share of North Sea Oil only just covers the spending gap, and North Sea Oil output is projected to fall by 50 per cent by 2020.

Question is......are you happy for Scotland to be benefiting from services such as….Free University Tuition Fees, Free Home care for the elderly, Free Prescriptions from 2011, knowing that it's your Taxes that are paying for them?

Do you receive these benefits ?????

I hope Irate Ian doesn't read this...He will be lobbying to see the govenments spending and the next 5 years projections of how England and Scotland will be funded!!!

 

[davewebbsbrain]

I blame Mel Gibson.

As Frankie Boyle said...He thought it strange that they used an Aussie to play Braveheart, but it was good foresight. Look at Gibson now, he's a racist alcoholic..stereotypical scotsman!!

 

[steveo]

he's a racist alcoholic

anything wrong with that? just kidding

 

[osymandus]

The UK is like 4 guys going down the pub.....England being the tallest out of all 4 and then equal amounts of money being put in to a whip round, and the tall guy getting half a pint of beer whilst the other 3 all get a pint each!!!!

Except for in previous vistis England would drag the rest down the pub , demand several chasers and free drinks keep sending the other 3 out to settle fights it had started . While being teh small yappy guy everyone hates