Energy at close to cost.
The Scottish government has today announced it will set up a publicly owned, not for profit, energy company, which will sell energy to the people of Scotland at "as close to cost price as possible".
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...and somehow the price will be higher than if a privately owned company ran things.
BTW, if they charge any amount above cost, then where is that extra money going? |
Overhead. Lots of overhead.
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If it wasn't going to make some one a lot of money then no one would bother doing it.
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Duhmerica's fly-over country has lots of ag cooperatives that sell fuels, and electric cooperatives for rural customers; Cooperatives are supposedly "customer owned". Their prices are no better and the profit sharing- if any- is minimal.
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Scotland actually has a government that looks after the Scottish people. We get free prescription medicines for all, free bus journeys for all over 60s and now cheaper energy than the big six energy companies charge.
If they just drop the quest for independence we should be okay. |
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Taxes obviously; Scottish tax levels are on a par with the majority of developed countries.
Poke, poke :D |
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Scotland can afford to give the free stuff through judicious management of the taxes paid by Scots (exactly the same rate as for other UK tax payers at the moment, though they are looking at possible changes to the levels at which the various rates change). Our NHS is also better funded than England and Wales. |
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I'll point out that USA GDP per capita is $58,000. When you get to keep most of the money you earn, you tend to be more motivated to work. If most of my money went to pay for "free" medical care for obese Uhmericans, I probably wouldn't bother showing up for work. |
There will be some income from North Sea Oil and Gas as workers get paid and their pay gets taxed. The oil companies get the revenue from the sale of the oil, and pay the UK government for the licences and tax. Scotland gets revenue from rates gathered from facilities on Scottish soil, just as any business pays. Even Amazon has to pay rates on their warehouses!
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Wikis figures for GDP is about 30% higher than the official government figures. |
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What do you get from your taxes? |
The USofA had a half-purebred Scot for President for two terms, yet none of that benefit accrued to us. Maybe it's something in the water over there?
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You can complain about taxes.
You can complain about government. But in the end all government activities are paid for by taxes. You get what you paid for! |
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I don't know what I get from my taxes, but I do know I get the DMV threatening to take my license away for paying the registration tax, but not driving the vehicle. :rolleyes: I suppose I get military representation in the far corners of the world, not that I wish my money to be spent in that way. The upside is I also get GPS with my taxes. You're welcome rest of the world. |
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I ride the local bus for free, but that's a service of the county/city. OTOH I think transit should be free at point of use for everyone. Little else will get people out of their cars. Employees get the low rate covered by their employer, un/self-employed get an exorbitant high rate. |
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We have a space programme (of sorts), lots of National Parks and forests, and pay more or less the same taxes as you do. I too can spend my earnings on whatever I want (except guns), so I feel pretty good about where I live too.
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Yugoslavia had a space program, look what it got them:
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...+space+program What is your's like? |
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All that "welfare state" BS is unsustainable, as it sometimes starts to run out of other people's money to pay for the handouts that benefit a few lazy arses.
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Politics follows culture. If Universal Basic Income doesn't follow robots taking all the jobs, then it will be something no-one has thought of yet. Probably block-chain based.
The solution won't be from government; it will be from the Open Software Foundation and the Maker movement and people like Eben Moglen and Lawrence Lessig. It will unleash a wave of creativity that would make Bucky Fuller proud. Remember what he said about the G.I Bill. |
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What’s going to happen to consumer owned Scottish Power? They were good to work for 10 years ago. They owned my employer for a few years.
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oil pan 4 — The brass cupboard hinges on the elevrons was a nice touch.
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Scotland's space programme!
Glasgow scientists launch teacake into space - BBC News |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb0ooQKbflM |
The idea of an energy company was in last years manifesto and it still appears to be very much just the whim of an idea with little detail, no set up costs or details of the services, infrastructure needed, staffing estimates, etc. etc. If its taking a further 4 years to be implemented then I think its more like a dangling carrot to hold on to votes at future elections.
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Isn't that the way with all government promises, irrespective of which government?
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It's as simple as asking what their real focus is. As Governor William J. Lepetomaine so eloquently put it...
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