Period products to be handed out for free to everyone in Scotland in 'world first' - MSE News 25 November 2020 at 12:22PM in Health & beauty MoneySaving 10 replies 335 views

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People in Scotland will soon be able to get free period products under law in a move it claims is a world first...

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'Period products to be handed out for free to everyone in Scotland in 'world first''

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Hasbeen

Not exactly free.
Scottish tax payers pay more than anyone.

I for one would be better off by £3000 if I lived in England.

The SNP are experts in giving  "free" to show how good they are in government.

mac.d

That's usually how it works, pay more taxes, get more 'services'. 
University education, nursery places, school meals, prescriptions, personal care for elderly...

Besides, only some not all pay more tax, and on the other hand probably pay less council tax.

Cloudrider

Free to Everyone? 
Really???
Roughly 50% of the recipients will be men in that case.

Spoonie_Turtle

Cloudrider said:

Free to Everyone? 
Really???
Roughly 50% of the recipients will be men in that case.

Not sure anyone is going to be taking them if they have no use for them! There are plenty of women who don't have periods for various reasons.

Hasbeen

mac.d said:

That's usually how it works, pay more taxes, get more 'services'. 
University education, nursery places, school meals, prescriptions, personal care for elderly...

Besides, only some not all pay more tax, and on the other hand probably pay less council tax.

But that is not how it is working. Pay more tax get less actual services.

Council tax has went through the roof, now payable direct to the scottish government not the councils.

But we got a broken down ugly parliament building at £414 million and running / repair costs of about £80 million per year.

We get show projects like the Queensferry Crossing not fit for purpose at 1.35 Billion pounds

People are moving away. 

On 4 March 2020 the Scottish Parliament set the following income tax rates and bands for 2020 to 2021.

Bands	Band name	Rate
Over £12,500* - £14,585	Starter Rate	19%
Over £14,585 - £25,158	Scottish Basic Rate	20%
Over £25,158 - £43,430	Intermediate Rate	21%
Over £43,430 - £150,000**	Higher Rate	41%
Over £150,000**	Top Rate	46%

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Hasbeen said:

mac.d said:

That's usually how it works, pay more taxes, get more 'services'. 
University education, nursery places, school meals, prescriptions, personal care for elderly...

Besides, only some not all pay more tax, and on the other hand probably pay less council tax.

But that is not how it is working. Pay more tax get less actual services.

Council tax has went through the roof, now payable direct to the scottish government not the councils.

But we got a broken down ugly parliament building at £414 million and running / repair costs of about £80 million per year.

We get show projects like the Queensferry Crossing not fit for purpose at 1.35 Billion pounds

People are moving away. 

On 4 March 2020 the Scottish Parliament set the following income tax rates and bands for 2020 to 2021.

Bands	Band name	Rate
Over £12,500* - £14,585	Starter Rate	19%
Over £14,585 - £25,158	Scottish Basic Rate	20%
Over £25,158 - £43,430	Intermediate Rate	21%
Over £43,430 - £150,000**	Higher Rate	41%
Over £150,000**	Top Rate	46%

Total, utter rot. 

Zellah

Hasbeen said:

Not exactly free.
Scottish tax payers pay more than anyone.

I for one would be better off by £3000 if I lived in England.

The SNP are experts in giving  "free" to show how good they are in government.

Then maybe you should tell your fellow Scots to stop voting for the SNP as they seem to be very popular north of the border. Or don't you believe in democracy?

Hasbeen

dahj said:

Hasbeen said:

mac.d said:

That's usually how it works, pay more taxes, get more 'services'. 
University education, nursery places, school meals, prescriptions, personal care for elderly...

Besides, only some not all pay more tax, and on the other hand probably pay less council tax.

But that is not how it is working. Pay more tax get less actual services.

Council tax has went through the roof, now payable direct to the scottish government not the councils.

But we got a broken down ugly parliament building at £414 million and running / repair costs of about £80 million per year.

We get show projects like the Queensferry Crossing not fit for purpose at 1.35 Billion pounds

People are moving away. 

On 4 March 2020 the Scottish Parliament set the following income tax rates and bands for 2020 to 2021.

Bands	Band name	Rate
Over £12,500* - £14,585	Starter Rate	19%
Over £14,585 - £25,158	Scottish Basic Rate	20%
Over £25,158 - £43,430	Intermediate Rate	21%
Over £43,430 - £150,000**	Higher Rate	41%
Over £150,000**	Top Rate	46%

Total, utter rot. 

ER. Which part do you not believe?

Hasbeen

Zellah said:

Hasbeen said:

Not exactly free.
Scottish tax payers pay more than anyone.

I for one would be better off by £3000 if I lived in England.

The SNP are experts in giving  "free" to show how good they are in government.

Then maybe you should tell your fellow Scots to stop voting for the SNP as they seem to be very popular north of the border. Or don't you believe in democracy?

They are not that popular. There is no one else to vote for, on the mainland. My fellow scots do not vote for them.

Their core voters seem to be the ones that have never worked a day in their lives or are on methadone?

Or still at school having been brainwashed with years of propaganda. 

You can only watch Brave Heart so much?  LOL

What we want is financial and political independence from Scotland. With Shetland and Orkney being governed as a Crown Dependency, similar to Jersey and the Isle of Man.


EDIT:
But to stop this thread going off track and becoming political. LOL

My original point still stands.
It is good that period products are to be given out "free".

But they are not "free" as they are paid for by people working in the most heavily taxed country in the UK.

If we are going to get "free" then spend the money on Education, Health, Child poverty etc.
On what Scotland really needs not propaganda stunts.

RRatchet

Also & not just for Scotland:

"Morrisons is helping to fight back against period poverty by rolling out ‘Package for Sandy’ - a service available for customers in need who can access a discreet package of sanitary protection products - across all its 497 stores after a store colleague in Bolton came up with the idea to help vulnerable customers."