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Originally Posted by Talking Heads
From Scotland.
Along with all the other money westminster thieves off us.
UK and Norway have produced roughly the same amount of oil, Norway has more money in its sovereign wealth fund than it can spend, westminster has trillions of debt.
But hey, cucumber sandwiches.
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I think you're comparing apples with cucumbers when you use Norway as an example. In the UK, our taxes are about 38% of GDP, in Norway the government takes 55% of GDP.
[Source:
https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-go...ndicator-chart ]
So, if we had all paid about 45% more tax over the last five decades we could have a top class health system like Norway. But instead we voted for lower taxes and more spending and as a result we've got a huge deficit.
You may have noticed that my posts contain references for where I'm getting my numbers from. Any chance you could share some of yours??
Keith.