Lamont’s labours
The council tax freeze has benefited rich taxpayers disproportionately, while vital council services – on which vulnerable people depend – are having to be cut back.
So-called free prescriptions have resulted in cutbacks in front-line healthcare, as the cost has to be borne out of reducing or static NHS board budgets. It is the rich who have benefited from the extension of free prescriptions.
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Hide AdAnd much-vaunted “free” higher education has distorted university intakes, transferred the burden of cost and resulted in cuts to college budgets.
It is further, rather than higher, education we should be protecting.
There are no free goods or services. Someone has to pay the cost, and Johann has at last started a grown-up debate on the issue of how they are funded.
George Foulkes
Barony Terrace
Edinburgh