You are taking the biggest gamble in a generation with growth, with people's jobs and people's livelihoods.

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However, Patrick Harvie, Green MSP for Glasgow, described the TIF scheme as a "reckless gamble" with taxpayers cash based on "the absurd prediction of everlasting retail growth".

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To justify ten years' worth of huge tax cuts on the basis of a guess about productivity growth derived from a few quarters' figures can only be considered a reckless gamble and, since the tax cuts need not be so vast, an unnecessary one.

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