Picture: COLIN TEMPLETON..Chief medical officer Dr Harry Burns launches his fifth annual report…Photo: Colin Templeton. ONE of Nicola Sturgeon ‘s closest advisors has called for the rich to be taxed in order to fund a basic ‘citizens’ income’ for the poor in Scotland .
Writing exclusively in the Sunday Herald, Harry Burns, who serves on the Scottish government’s Council of Economic Advisors, said: "If you tax the rich and give the money to the poor everyone benefits, including the rich."
Burns, who was Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer, believes a citizen’s "basic income" would "transform life in deprived parts of Scotland". Burns […]
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