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Graham Stewart takes your calls on the day's big news stories.

Graham Stewart takes your calls, texts and emails on the day's big news stories.

The biggest phone-in on Scottish radio, Graham Stewart takes your calls on the day's big news stories.

Morning Extra: Should there be a maximum wage?

08/12/2009

Should there be a maximum wage?

BBC Radio Scotland - Morning Extra, Should there be a maximum wage?

Graham Stewart asks if there should be limits on public sector salaries.

Graham Stewart takes your calls on whether there should be limits on public sector salaries and a windfall tax on bankers' bonuses.

Gordon Brown has said overpaid public sector workers will be "named and shamed" in an effort to deliver more value for money in public services. In future, all new public sector jobs with salaries above £150,000 will have to be approved by the Treasury. But what about the private sector? Backbench MP Paddy Tipping says no-one in the UK should be paid more than £120,000 for the sake of 'fairness and justice.' Meanwhile, banking chiefs have reacted angrily to news the Treasury is considering a one-year windfall tax on bonuses paid to some UK-based bankers.

Is fleecing the rich the way out of this recession? Or will the politics of envy force top talent to leave the country?

Graham Stewart takes your calls, texts and emails.

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