taxpayer

“The County’s health and hospital system is run with taxpayer dollars,” Dist.

Robison also defended other measures set out in the Budget, telling Good Morning Scotland that proposed changes to lower income tax thresholds would provide “certainty and stability” for taxpayers.

The difference is less than £30 a year, but it allows Robison to say that 51% of Scottish taxpayers pay less.

The US president-elect has accused European countries of relying on American taxpayers for their security.

Currently, people in Scotland earning more than about £28,850 - about half of the country's taxpayers - pay more income tax than they would elsewhere in the UK.