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Originally Posted by andrewb
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?
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I will give credit where it is due and in this case I don't think it is. I would not have been aware of all the grants that HBC have had if it weren't for this thread and feel that if the money had been used correctly the increases would have been less. The service we get is not improving so don't see how these big increases can be justified.