"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Thursday, 11 February 2016 22:05:34 UTC, Hilo Black wrote:


No reason why a household with two adults should be
paying twice as much as a household with just one.

Is that because two people can live as cheqaply as one ?

No, we are talking about what it costs the local
council to provide what they are there to provide.

And even with social welfare, it makes no sense to be
collecting twice as much from the two adult household
and giving much of that back to the two adult household.

The easterm european couple next to me have 3 kids
their cat is on it's 3rd litter of 5 this time. They seem
to have 2 cars at the monent, and seem to be buying
lots of stuff as their recyling bin is always over flowing
with cardboard from all sorts of producst 3 weeks ago it
was a 46 inch TV. the 32" I assume was for the kids room.

All irrelevant to what it costs the local council.

They seem like a nice enough couple and I think the
'husband' has a job of some sort so I'm not saying that
are scrounging off me, it's just that I can't understand
why my council tax is only 25% cheaper than there's.

That isnt what was being discussed either,
whether the poll tax Maggie proposed is a
better approach than the current council tax.

So the cost of runbbish collection, water rates,

Many places charge for water quite separately to
the council tax and that does make a lot of sense.

and all the other bills are the same whether
there are 5 people + 8 cats in the house or
just 1 and 1 cat just doesn;t seem to add up.

What the council spends had very little to do with cats.