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What sacrifices should be made in the Scottish budget?

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Graham Stewart | 10:12 UK time, Monday, 14 September 2009

What sacrifices are you prepared to make to help out the public finances?

The Scottish Finance Secretary, John Swinney, says he's confident that council taxpayers in Scotland will see their bills frozen for a third successive year despite the growing pressures on the Holyrood budget.

But should he rethink this policy if it were to safeguard jobs? Or is it long before time the public sector made the kind of efficiency savings the private sector's had to recently?

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