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Originally Posted by andrewb
So you disagree that council tax would have to go up if council workers wages increased double the rate of inflation?
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The answer is fairly simple, in the abstract.
We are all paying too much tax and receiving too little for it.
The majority of taxation is via IR and indirect taxation on goods we purchase. With this money the goverment spend far too high a proportion on invading foreign countries and along the way getting far too many of our service people killed and maimed.
We also pay local taxation which councils use to pay ever more menial wages for people who perform essential services.
the solution, without costing us anymore, is to pull back a high proportion of our troops, and redirect the money from central geverment to local services, better wages for those who deserve them and improved hospitals, schools, pulic transport for all.