The People Voted for Tax-Raising Powers, so Why Are All Our Political Parties so Afraid of Using It?
The Herald › November 22, 2010
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Ian Bell posed all the right questions in his essay "Why has the SNP given up on the tax-power struggle?" (The Herald, November 20), and made the right points about how the administration could have fought the costs and retained the power. The answers to the question are: loss of vision and ambition and loss of political will and smeddum.
It is judged by all parties today that any proposal to raise taxes will sound an electoral death knell. The Thatcherite mantra of low taxation has, over the past 30 years, eaten into the voters' willingness to be taxed, and their understanding of what it is for.See the full content of this document
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The People Voted for Tax-Raising Powers, so Why Are All Our Political Parties so Afraid of Using It?
Thus the SNP Government has made a virtue of freezing council tax for a couple of years, and continuing this will form a cen...
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