{"id":291753,"date":"2026-04-12T15:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=291753"},"modified":"2026-04-12T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:37:23","slug":"scottish-election-2026-how-tax-and-welfare-are-shaping-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=291753","title":{"rendered":"Scottish election 2026: How tax and welfare are shaping the vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years Scotland has struck out on a different path to the rest of the UK when it comes to income tax and social security&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8ej9nj9773o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: BBC News<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years Scotland has struck out on a different path to the rest of the UK when it comes to income tax and social security&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17884],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291753"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=291753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}