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Re: looks like council tax to be axed.
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:32 pm
by Wink Wink
Remember the Poll Tax riot & the girl being run over by a Police horse, that's when the Tories found out how unpoplular the poll tax was & it cost the a lot of votes.
Re: looks like council tax to be axed.
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:34 pm
by steve56
i dont recall that wink was that in 1990?
Re: Your Tax, Your Council....the changes
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:41 pm
by Wink Wink
Read on:
Re: Your Tax, Your Council....the changes
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:43 pm
by steve56
im sure a hundred a year for westminster would be ample,i live on my own so 300 a bit much.
Re: looks like council tax to be axed.
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:52 pm
by Wink Wink
Yep 1990 steve. The end of the Thatcher era.
Seems like only yesterday since I saw all this but it's 14 years ago now:
Re: looks like council tax to be axed.
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 12:15 am
by mart
Damn, I thought I would stir up a hornet's nest on the subject of the poll tax. What caused the problem for the Tories was the minutiae of the system and the excuse it gave to lazy bludgers who didn't like working or paying taxes of any kind. Where those people think the money for Council services comes from is a mystery.
The American Revolution had as one of its rallying cries "No taxation without representation". Today it ought to be "No representation without taxation". I've deliberately decided not to try to register as an expat voter because I don't pay any UK tax now.
Mart
Re: Your Tax, Your Council....the changes
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 1:02 am
by Deuce Bigolo
We've got councils like that in Australia
Charging like Wounded Bulls and providing the same services that other Councils provide for a third of the price
Its no surprise when you see these same councils watering reserves in 40 degree heat at Midday during summer.Like throwing money down the drain
cheers
B.....OZ