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Originally Posted by jaysay
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
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I think the concept of Community Charge is/was a good one - in a way it's very Labourish in its principles - every man is equal etc. I don't even think it was brought in wrong, I think the problem was that everyone had got so used to paying tiny rates bills because they hadn't been reevaluated for ages that it seemed like a huge increase - I think my parents went up from something daft like £80 rates per year to something like £250 each for Community Charge.
Because of the current system, which as Andrew continues to point out is very high throughout the country (although Hyndburn is quite cheap in comparison, so I've been told) I think people would be more open to a per person system now.