tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post1249676330662609492..comments2024-03-29T10:48:06.521+00:00Comments on Nanny Knows Best: Spies 'R Us - Snooping CouncilsKen Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13568488818950912374noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-12756528810583349172009-09-24T22:34:36.604+01:002009-09-24T22:34:36.604+01:00Interesting point about poll tax. I do not persona...Interesting point about poll tax. I do not personally have any view on thr matter. I do think that Council Tax is just a version of the old Rates. The Tory Govt of the time couldn't really call it Rates again as they would be losing face in defeat.<br /><br />A small aside. I wish smokers had done the same as Poll Tax objectors did!!<br /><br />Another point. I lived in a Housing Association flat for a few years, and the Water Rates were extortionate, higher than a 3 bed detached house in the same area! I appealed and was told they were based on the old Rates. Yes, that's it. Based on pre Council Tax rates even though it was 2004!!timbonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985165416240833253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-21391616608159382782009-09-24T11:06:33.077+01:002009-09-24T11:06:33.077+01:00Well I dont like the council tax or the poll tax.
...Well I dont like the council tax or the poll tax.<br />With all other taxes you must have to earn some cash before you pay a percentage in tax.<br />Houses do not generate disposable income year on year, no matter what their value. Neither do cars (road tax) for that matter.<br /><br />The fact is, without vast public spending and wastefullness, 10 percent of everyones wage (and nothing else) would be more than enough money to simply administer the country. And it would be fair.<br /><br />Vote Bucko!Buckonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-79115980889881421442009-09-24T09:58:07.263+01:002009-09-24T09:58:07.263+01:00Nanny's plan is to divide and rule......We mus...Nanny's plan is to divide and rule......We must resist community spies and do everything we can to make them look silly in Nanny's eyes....A kind of distribution of mis-information to these grasses to report back.<br /><br />Ken, you are not the only one that thought the Poll Tax was the best way to collect local tax however, when it was sold to the population, it was suggested that everyone, no matter where they lived, would pay the same amount....This sadly did not happen and there were massive differences between areas....Labour councils effectively sabotaged the tax by ripping off the people that elected them.<br /><br />I object to the way the council tax is currently implemented; Because Wokingham is seen by Nanny as a well off area, we have to pay eighty percent of the money needed for local government, including the things that Nanny dictates we must do whereas, many Labour areas, which are deemed to be poorer, only pay twenty percent of their needs with central government making up the difference...Thus, in general terms, we in the Conservative areas have to subsidise Labour areas.....Every year something extra appears to be added to the tax and every year a huge glossy book comes through the door, first class of course, telling me how well Nanny is spending my money.<br /><br />Incidently, if I address any letter relating to council tax to the rip off department at my local council offices, it always arrive in the right department;-)Tonk.noreply@blogger.com