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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE
Do you know I sometimes despair when I read your posts. It has been pointed out that HBC have had numerous grants which should have avoided these big rises in council tax. So why has it gone up by 31.8%?? The fact that it has been less than the increase in wages is neither here nor there because besides council tax everything else has gone up. So the 4.2% extra on wage increases that is over and above the increase in council tax has already been eaten up by the price of other things rising. It is time you entered the real world and admitted that HBC are making a mess of things and wasting money 
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Bernadette a lot of councils have grants, it is not just HBC, yet the vast majority of councils have had higher tax increases than we have. There is no doubt that food, fuel, stealth taxes, everything is going up an awful lot, but you can't blame HBC for that can you? Nobody likes the council taxing them, but services do not run themselves. The national gap between wage increases and council tax is 50%! Can you not give HBC a bit of credit for keeping it nowhere near that?