Re: A question of morals


"Alang" <invalidme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:09:10 +0100, Michael Swift
<mike.swift@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <94ydnVFxu7AW3z_bRVnyhAA@xxxxxxxxx>, Uno-Hoo! <Uno-
Hoo@NOSPAMbigfootdotcom.?> writes
Can you explain just why it was wrong to expect all users of local
resources to pay for them - rather than just householders?

Indeed, at the time there were 5 in my household 4 of whom were wage
earners yet I paid the same council tax as next door where two people
lived, both retired, how fair was that.

The reason poll tax failed was political, councils saw a milk cow and
set it way too high.

It failed because it was regressive.
A form of local income tax based on ability to pay would have been far
more acceptable. Threatening 18 yr olds with prison because they can't
pay a poll tax of hundreds out of a weekly wage of as little as £35 is
hardly a fair way to finance local expenditure.

Of course, in this day and age of the minimum wage you'd be all for it?

Kev


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