Originally Posted by
tmmorris
If it's true that those posted to Scotland benefit from the higher spending on public services there - free prescriptions, university have already been mentioned - then why shouldn't they pay the higher taxes these require?
Perhaps because the average serviceman will benefit from neither free university or free prescriptions?
These things are of benefit in the long term, not the short term. Most servicemen will not be there long enough to benefit.
You could equally argue that the people based in London get all the advantages of living in the capital, so why do they get extra?