article_snippet.sent: However, the SNP leader demanded full fiscal autonomy for Scotland in return, meaning all money raised in tax north of the border would be spent there.
article_snippet.sent: the SNP has proposed 'a modest increase in public spending' to end austerity and allow Scotland's health budget to rise by £2 billion by 2020. '
article_snippet.sent: Let us lift austerity and have spending increases in the next parliament that are fiscally responsible but allow us to spend more money on us vital public services like the health service,' she said. '
article_snippet.sent: I am proposing an increase in spending in the health service across the UK that would see by the end of this decade an additional £2 billion being spent on the NHS in Scotland. '
article_snippet.sent: That's the choice we have at this election - continued austerity being proposed by the Tories and Labour, or an alternative to austerity, which is what the SNP is proposing, and we need a strong Scottish voice in Westminster that can force that alternative to austerity.'
article_snippet.sent: Which services will be cut?
article_snippet.sent: Which taxes will be raised?
article_snippet.sent: And what cuts will it mean for pensioners in Scotland when pensioners in Scotland when they are taken out of the UK pensions system are taken out of the UK pensions system? '
article_snippet.sent: The SNP claim in this campaign to be proposing no reductions in spending, but in fact they are planning dramatic reductions in spending. 
article_snippet.sent: And I will never sell Britain short by abandoning the pooling and sharing of resources.
article_snippet.sent: Because this is a pooling and sharing which benefits all parts of our country, because we look after each other and we know we can only tackle the problems our country faces across the whole of the United Kingdom.'
article_snippet.sent: The truth is, the only cuts on the horizon for Scotland are the ones that the Tories are proposing and Labour are backing.'
highlights_snippet.sent: But SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is demanding full fiscal autonomy as a price for SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon support .
  