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crusty_bint wrote:Dugald, I can't believe you just said that. I understand what you mean but to analogise with the Poll Tax... any credibility youhad has just evaporated ::): . Anyway, Council Tax is banded dependant on the value of your property so we don't all pay the same.:
Dugald wrote:
Anyway, just ponder the following for a wee minute. House "A" is occupied solely by a widow; house"B", next door, is occupied by 8 people: two parents, two parents-in-law, and 4 children. Is there anything unfair in expecting the municipal services tax for House"B" being proportionally higher than the tax paid by House"A"? No, of course not: garbage is not a function of "house size", but rather, a function of the number of people in the house, so let's have people pay for the garbage they wish to dispose of !
Dugald wrote: .....................
Anyway, just ponder the following for a wee minute. House "A" is occupied solely by a widow; house"B", next door, is occupied by 8 people: two parents, two parents-in-law, and 4 children. Is there anything unfair in expecting the municipal services tax for House"B" being proportionally higher than the tax paid by House"A"? No, of course not: garbage is not a function of "house size", but rather, a function of the number of people in the house, so let's have people pay for the garbage they wish to dispose of !
Dugald wrote:
In response to the same quotation, Onyirtodd says:
"This is a slippery slope. Is Dugald planning to extend this 'pay per person' system to take account of, say, the number of kids a household has in state education or the number of library books borrowed?".
No, Dugald is not planning to extend this 'pay per person' system to all of the municipal services; he fully appreciates, for example, the need for state run schools regardless of the number of children in each household.
House "A" is occupied solely by a widow, a Mrs Thatcher; house"B", next door, is occupied by 8 people: two parents, two parents-in-law, and 4 children .
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