Average council tax bill per working person per week - £10 +
Average hours worked per week - 40
Time at work required to pay coucil tax bill - 1 hr 10 minutes
That's right. That last miserable hour on a Friday.
* Based on £23900 net per year
+ Based on £1,056 per year per household and two working adults to pay the bill
But... that's for
Schools (ie state organised babysitting for the workforce)
Rubbish collection (imagine having to go to the dump all the time)
Libraries (yes, all those Mills and Boon books)
Police (but don't expect them to help when you get burgled)
Fire (No arguments here. Hire more. Give them a pay rise)
Local Council Admin (Doncaster Council has to be the biggest joke ever)
It's also means tested but not based on how much a person earns or has in savings. It is worked out on the basis of the value of the property a person lives in. If you rent in a building that's worth a lot (as I used to) your tax is based on the assets of someone else. And if you don't have kids you are effectively paying for other people's kids to go to the local school because most local council tax is spent there.
That's Local Tax. What about Income tax. The average person above would pay £75 a week in income tax. How does the government spend that? In 2005 the government spent
On the 'This Week' politics talk show last night they pointed out that the British economy has been supported for the past decade on the unholy triptych of inflated house prices, consumer debt and no consumer personal savings. The average Italian family saves three times as much money for the future as a British family. Or should I say a Scottish/English/Welsh family. The concept of Britishness is taught in English schools but not in Welsh or Scottish schools. Wonder why. The three most important figures in a Gordon Brown government would be Scottish. They would sit in the English parliament but not be democratically accountable to English voters.
Have a good weekend (all 30 of you.)
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