Well give that our tax receipts don't cover the services we provide, are they now not public services?
Here's someone who's never talked shop with an accountant,
So do you ignore all the aspects like costs of policing/courts from crime which has led from things like homelessness and joblessness. Do we then ignore the health costs of those affected by such crime (such as robbery) potentially leaving the victim in need of emotional support and being unable...
So a person currently not working/paying tax but helps run programmes that help keep people off the street or out of gangs/crime - are they not contributing?
Stop this ridiculous idea that the only measure of whether someone contributes or not is purely down to tax/welfare. Or even tangible...
So lets say that all housing benefit goes through the crime budget rather than the welfare budget as homelessness plays a significant part in crime due to things like drug abuse and vulnerable people ending up in crime gangs or prostitution. In fact while we're at it let's put people having...
So you're saying this idea that work brings you prosperity and meaning is nonsense then. And if they're that poor and relying on wages from employment and not state handouts, who should be taking the blame that these people lived in squalor?
Says the person who made the sweeping statements that all children are future tax payers, all pensioners are previous tax payers and all unemployed people (including migrants) have never and never will be tax payers.
Except that the aims and objectives, as well as the scope and remit of both are completely different.
Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts,.
Part of me would love the club to do a sticker book, focusing on CCFC players and teams through the years. Maybe make it a ringbinder so additional years could be added at a later date.
Well it wasn't.
You said there was no way that people in downtrodden areas in this country could possibly have it worse than they do or how anyone could even imagine it could be.
I just showed you that people who had it much worse than them also thought it couldn't get any worse and it did...
Our 'theme' song is about a depressing place filled with wastrels with no prospects or hope for the future. Not exactly the positive vibe we're looking for is it.