On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:35:41 +0000, Mark wrote:

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:31:25 +0000, Andy Hall
wrote:

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?

Mark.


Fairest for people who pay for and use goods and services.

But unfair to those who cannot afford to pay.


We're talking about essentials here, and I have not suggested that
there shouldn't be a safety net for those who genuinely can't afford
to pay for essentials. However, I don't think that this then has to
mean that the state needs to provide for everybody.


--

..andy