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Orla See the 'Societies' page on this website for an (incomplete) list of local things you could get involved in. Plenty going on here.
Well it seems there are two options a) pay more tax or b) be on the receiving end of more and more cut backs in services that are provided via tax (NHS, Police, Armed Services, Social Care, Education, Trading Standards, Building Control, Highways and countless other things).
Is that not the same with everything in life we pay our taxes and those less fortunate benifit from it. If goverment is borrowing large amounts of cash to prop up the system who ever they are that cant be right we have to pay more in tax or am i missing something.
Of course things have changed! Would you say that the health system we have now (the NHS) is a fairer health system than the one we had before 1948 whereby people had to pay, individually, for their health care? Are you suggesting it is a choice between collective paying for (tax) or individual paying for? In which case why should those having to pay for themselves have to also pay ...
Hi Orla. I moved here over 25 years ago and have no regrets. No problem with 'newcomers' as a large portion of the population are from 'outside' anyway. As already been said, nice walks around the area, Dartmoor is less than an hours drive away. Public transport is regular with local busses including the 'shopper' bus, road and rail links and National Express also serve the area. ...
That's not what I mean though and I feel that's kind of obvious there 🙄🙄
Oo Andrew, are you asking me on a date 😱😱 Loving the conspiracy theories you have going on. Just for clarification, never met lynne don't know who she is!
Torquay, like many places, is far better than it used to be. You really need to judge for yourself, rather than be swayed by the Negative Nellies that you get on websites like this one.
So as always it's simple pay more council tax or vat or more for fuel etc etc, whatever it is folk will moan you get what you pay for, now with a labour goverment they will give us what we want but on borrowed cash the solution is higher taxation its that simple. VAT needs to be 30%, 30p on a litre of fuel, 5p on personel tax, double the duty on fags beer and spirits but who will vote for that ...
There is no logic in one form of health care being paid for by us all and another form of health care being paid for by the individual. It is all health care. And if local authorities are starved of cash now to pay for social (health) care then they are hardly in a position to wait for people to die before they can recoup the money, as per the Conservative manifesto proposal, that has been ...