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Originally Posted by Gayle
If you don't use the value of the house for council tax i.e. on the assumption that you live in an expensive area therefore earn a good wage and can afford to pay more (which in a nutshell is the principle of the banding) - then you have to discuss other ways for councils to get their funding and the other way is per person! Which, if you recall was the principle of Poll Tax and think of the disruption and outrage that that caused. There are probably people still languishing in our overcrowded jails because they refused to pay Poll Tax.  |
The concept of te Community Charge (to give it its Sunday name) was good, it was the implimentation that was crap, there is nothing wrong with people paying for he services they receive, its not a house that uses services, its people, but didn't agree with the amount that people were being asked to pay, if it had been set at around £75 per person with the same benefits for the poorest in society I don't think there would have been a lot of decenters, but at the time the amount being asked was stupid. But whichever way local services are payed for not everybody will be happy, people don't like paying out money and thats a fact