Dear Editor
ALMOST 50 years ago I received my first pay packet together with a slip of paper telling me how much tax and national insurance I’d paid.
I felt proud that I was at last making a contribution towards those who protected us from:
⁃ disease and ill health;
⁃ rapists, murderers and thieves;
⁃ foreign invaders;
⁃ extreme poverty.
I was also proud to contribute to those who ensured we had:
⁃ reliable, secure and inexpensive energy to power our homes, industry and transport;
⁃ supplies of healthy British food;
⁃ public transport and infrastructure to get us to work, shops and leisure, and water companies to give us ample clean water for drinking, irrigation and hygiene;
⁃ waste bins and road sweeps and friendly collectors of our bins;
⁃ a fair and non-conflicted legal system;
⁃ leading incorruptible scientists and engineers to solve problems, design and construct safe and effective buildings, roads, power stations, ships, reservoirs etc and to ensure safety of medicines and vaccines.
I recognise I was quite naive and trusting then, but I still consider that these things are what our taxes should be used for.
However, nowadays when I see the tax I pay I am furious at the waste and failures to deliver even basic services.
Not only do we have a Prime Minister and members of his Cabinet who are grifters, we have similar corruption in parts of the public sector.
Few politicians or senior officials seem aware of the problems, let alone interested in solving them.
They prefer instead to create bureaucracy and use taxpayers’ money to fund companies who get most of their turnover and profits from running ineffective and inefficient services.
Some of these companies, including those running children’s homes and residential homes for the elderly and also services for addicts, ex-offenders, the homeless and those struggling with disability and mental health issues, are engaged in criminal behaviour.
I like most people can think of hundreds of ways we can solve our problems, improve our services and ensure they deliver. Why are none of the governing elites interested?
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