10%, france and scotland done at 8%, 9%, io%, given the republic of ireland are being at 13.5% making it competitive against the rest of the british isles and here we have the highest rateable value in the uk and wales have 75% rateable value discount in scotland we are paying 100% rates this year, even though the scottish government got £223 million in barnett consequentials, that wasn t passed on to hospitality in scotland so we have that as well. the deposit return scheme. all of these kind of things falling on us in scotland that governments need to look at. fire in scotland that governments need to look at. , . . in scotland that governments need to look at. ~ , . ., , , look at. are restaurant guests easier to handle look at. are restaurant guests easier to handle than - look at. are restaurant guests easier to handle than hotel. look at. are restaurant guests - easier to handle than hotel guests? i think the level of service that restaurateurs and hoteliers put in is just
i wonder how this would shake up a race that many portray as a desantis contest, but this could change. it could, jim. listen, senator scott is arguably one of the most influential black conservatives in america. he s the okay blanl rep currently in the united states senate. he s well known and is well liked. he enters the race with an edge, $223 million left over from his senate run. we ve learned he s going to use $6 million in advertisements in the critical states of iowa and new hampshire, in advance of the first republican debate. for folks who don t know him, he has the money to compete, to introduce himself to voters. desantis and trump is north of $1 million.
jonna happy new year to our panel. jenna, i will start with you, 11 times the president says it s over but we will get another extension. yeah, the mixed messaging as you called it amounts to gas lighting. the fact that the president said that if americans get vaccinated then we wouldn t be under an emergency order. well, mr. president, over 223 million americans have been vaccinated. amounting to almost 70% of the u.s. population. then he said the pandemic is over as we saw in the clip but yet there continue to be an expansion continuation or renewal of this emergency order. i think in part so the federal government can continue to have broad authority over particular programs. as an example, we see what they are able to do with medicaid. they can continue to push that program and expand that program.
weekend s powerball jackpot which hit $344 million. jackson says he s been playing the same numbers for years and years but he says the credit on this one goes to his granddaughter and a visit to a vietnamese restaurant. she had some fortune cookies. we always give her the fortune cookies. i said save the fortunes for me. i look at the numbers on the back of them. that s where they came from. jackson shows the lump some. he s talking home about $223 million or so. he says at first he didn t realize how much money he really won. my wife went to work. i called her back. i said look, we go to go to raleigh. she said for what? i said i think i won at least 50,000. after i hung up the phone with her, i looked. i said dang, i got them all. i called her back and said look, i won the whole thing. [laughter] she said well, how much is the whole thing? i don t know. i just played. i don t know what it is. shepard: she said i love you
we ll see how that goes. major league baseball s opening day is thursday and the new york yankees are about to start the season with their lowest payroll since 1992. according to the associated press, the yanks will have baseball s seventh high heest payroll and will avoid paying the league s luxury tax for the first time since the policy began in 2003. meanwhile, the red sox top the majors with a payroll of about $223 million. and finally, the fallout over the sexual abuse scandal resolving around former gymnastics doctor larry nassar continues. william strampel, the new york state university dean who supervised nassar has been arrested on unknown charges weeks after the school announced plans to fire him over his, quote, personal conduct. earlier this year, strampel stepped down as the head of the college of osteopathic medicine due to the scandal and came up fire for failing to confirm that