Stephen "Juan" Kerr would lecture Scots on economics
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Sit down Juan!
Taylor is using a classic propaganda trick.
The Barnett formula doesn't "give Scotland back all its tax plus £2,600 more."
It isn't based on tax at all — it only adjusts Scotland's block grant when England's departmental spending changes.
Scotland raises around £88.5 billion in public revenue each year.
The block grant is about £41 billion, just 46% of that.
So Holyrood directly controls less than half of the money raised in Scotland; the remaining 54% is controlled by Westminster.
That 54% is UK spending in or charged to Scotland, mostly pensions, military spending, and UK debt servicing.
The "£2600 more per person" is simply a spending-per-head figure.
It's not a 'gift' or subsidy and is funded by UK borrowing, borrowing serviced from Scottish taxation and underpinned by Scottish resources.
So most of that supposed "extra" is London-controlled welfare, defence, and debt payments. Money Scotland neither decides on nor directly receives.
In short: Barnett is a mechanism of control that conceals extraction.
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