On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:03:07 +0000, Mark wrote:

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:25:12 +0000, Andy Hall
wrote:

It isn't. In the main, people should pay for what they use. That
seems to me to be the fairest way.

Fairest for whom?


It works for food.

Or would you rather we had a "National Food Service", and a truck came
round twice a day, parked down the end of the street and doled out a
dipper full of "Mealie Pap" (Coarse maize porridge) to everybody.

You can't say fairer than that.

DG