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Has Gordon's borrow and spend economic strategy now reached the point where the piper must be paid?
 Just where did all that tax money go?
Southern Counties are hammered again by lower than inflation grants settlements
Hampshire has suffered the second lowest settlement in the country at just 2%
Chancellor Darling continues Brown's policy hitting the council tax payers yet again, moving your money North to Labour's traditional heartland
If you live in County Durham Labour spends £365 per person
If you live in Birmingham Labour spends £250 per person
in Hampshire we get just £111 per person
Labour now provides only 20% of the money needed through central government grant to Hampshire County Council, the remaining 80% has to be found from Council tax payers to fund essential services in the county.
In 1997, when Labour came to power the position was reversed in that just 20% was funded through council tax.
It is evident that this is blatant deliberate discrimination by a malicious goverment intent on asset stripping the southern counties through more stealth taxes in favour of Labour's strongholds. |
At the last election, the Lib Dems wanted to scrap Council Tax in favour of a local income tax. There’s some sense behind this, (remember the poll tax)– many people, often retired, live in expensive houses but don’t have enormous incomes. Council tax in its present form ignores income and ability to pay, charging people purely on the value of their home.
Well now, they’ve come up with another proposal which sounds completely contradictory. They want to charge a Wealth Tax on people with homes worth more than £1m.
It sounds like a tax against those nasty rich people. But it’s based on the same fallacy that makes council tax so stupid. It simply isn’t true that people in expensive houses are always rich. Many older people have lived in one house for more than half a century – and house price inflation has pushed their house value up to silly levels. That doesn’t mean they have a large income, and certainly doesn’t mean they’re able to pay – or deserving of – a wealth tax.
private comment, not an indicator of Conservative policy
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