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“Scotland’s councils need greater fiscal autonomy to help combat the impending crippling effects of austerity on vital local services and jobs, experts claim” – The future of local government finance and services exercised our online posters: Oh for a way in which everyone who uses the services had to pay for them! – Stuart A Rankin, West Lothian Including the non workers. It’s also about time council “services” were audited and managed independently. There’s far too much waste with public money – Greig Craig, Lanarkshire Can we please have a maximum wage introduced for local government officials first. Nobody in this country deserves the rodiculous pay that they get – Paul Mahon, Western Isles Perks for council workers ought to be looked at, especially in places where the councils are the largest employers and staff get so many perks which the public pay for – Sandra Hunter I remember when the council tax first came in, it was a fraction of the current charge; something in the region of £300. But the councils kept racking it up year after year, well above inflation, until the SNP froze it at about £1300 – Andrew Innes It’s well past times councillors had legal restrictions in place to force them to run on budget....what ever that budget is – Martin Wood Make sure tax is from income not from where you sleep – Stephen McIntosh, Renfrewshire Radical tax reforms. Oh I so wish! Instead we’ll get re-hashed same old Tom Flinn, Dunbar Join the debate at heraldscotland.com