A little light reading for January!

#IndyCurious
#YesCymru
#RethinkingWales
#Wales

Should older immigrants to Wales pay more tax, on an age related scale, to cover social costs?
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Should we abolish education fees to encourage youth to stay in Wales? Write off fees in return for staying in Wales for X years post graduation?
We know that the best solution is for graduates to leave, get a works view and then return in their late 30s/40s. How can we achieve this?
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To do that if needs to concentrate investment into its digital infrastructure.

The foundation economy cannot revive struggling communities on its own

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Wales is not going be prosperous unless it can flog stuff to the rest of the world. #RethinkingWales

25% of the Welsh population is over 65 which brings a high social cost. We need to encourage young people to either stay or come and discourage older people, who have paid their tax elsewhere, from retiring here. #RethinkingWales

14% of families in Wales have faced food insecurity in lockdown. #RethinkingWales

There is a high risk that Wales will be hit harder than the rest of the UK due to it being a small business economy. You can could the number of Welsh big businesses on the fingers of one hand. 'In fact Django Reinhardt could count them on the fingers of one hand'. #RethinkingWales

Currently our future will be decided by Westminster. The Welsh Government's powers of action are quite restricted eg ability to borrow. #RethinkingWales

So far covid-19 has caused a £300m fall in tax receipts for Wales #RethinkingWales

A few takeaways from this morning's #RethinkingWales event from the #IWA. I'm going to post them, without comment, here under that hashtag so you can filter them out if you want.

Today's #IWA event #RethinkingWales - Wales' future economy. 11am at a screen near me.