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It's a lot easier (quicker!) to reduce taxes than make better public services.
Who is going to believe that public services would improve? There is not enough tax to do that even if they doubled it.
I'm not sure I buy that theory.
I think public services would be better right now, if we reverted the moves to farm everything out to the private sector and slash and burn the specialist facilities in the public sector.
Civil servants aren't without many faults, but they are committed to the service and not prioritised by profits.
The public services are awful now because of the fact that the private sector is in no position better than providing start ups when tenders go out.
Group 4 - Prisons and security , was effectively ran as a start up operation a decade ago when they won the contract.
Serco - Tagging - same deal
Serco and "NHS Test and Trace" - they are saying that PHE was failing, so they attempt a slash and burn, and outsource to someone who tries to start from scratch, with no in house expertise or corporate experience, at massive cost.
My 2 cents, but that's the way I see it.
I believe that the quality of public services has more to do with spending public funds effectively , than tax income.
BUPA are a pretty good example of where it can work, to balance this post. They came in, already having a service and the expertise.
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