THINK about the song Imagine, as John Lennon might have written it today: Imagine no austerity, no cuts or closures too.
For Scotland’s local councils, it isn’t hard to do. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one...
We’re talking here about just one string in the SSP’s bow when it comes to redistribution of wealth from the rich to the rest of us: outright abolition of the unfair, regressive Council Tax, and its replacement by an income-based Scottish Service Tax, devised by the SSP, based on ability to pay, with a succession of tax bands and progressively rising taxation rates.
We've fought to build a mass campaign to win back some of the £5bn stolen from Scottish budgets by the Tory razor gang – and from the Scottish Government, which devolved the destruction instead of defying and defeating Westminster austerity. Our calculations, based on the latest available government statistics, show this would double funding for local jobs and services, from £2.7bn Council Tax to £5.3bn under a Scottish Service Tax.
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