The thing that irritates me about Council Tax is that the council are quick to say that the increases (I think ours were 17% the year before) are not being matched by the government, but when you start to look at the reasons for the large increases, two familiar items rear their ugly heads:-
Housing benefits granted (doubled in 2004/2005 budget)
Council Tax benefits granted
It's not the services such as street cleaning that we're paying the increases for - it's the welfare state yet again as parts of "new" Liebour's doomed social engineering experiment.
I saw a prog on ITV yesterday where a record number of people racked up credit card bills to pay for holidays in Torremolinos, couldn't afford the mortgage, lost the house and then went cap in hand to get a council house paid for by people who were actually responsible with their money.
You just couldn't make it up...
Housing benefits granted (doubled in 2004/2005 budget)
Council Tax benefits granted
It's not the services such as street cleaning that we're paying the increases for - it's the welfare state yet again as parts of "new" Liebour's doomed social engineering experiment.
I saw a prog on ITV yesterday where a record number of people racked up credit card bills to pay for holidays in Torremolinos, couldn't afford the mortgage, lost the house and then went cap in hand to get a council house paid for by people who were actually responsible with their money.
You just couldn't make it up...
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