Taunton Library cuts opening hours (From This is The West Country)

What the so-called journalist refers to as 'government handouts' is in fact money that has been paid in taxes by citizens.

The legititimate reason for the payment of taxes is for public services, such as defense, health.... and libraries. Not to bail out banks. And not to then have the bankers friends who are, in effect, now the government turn round and say ... "Oh, you can do the public services yourselves now ."

Somerset County Council is currently run by people who are clones of the central government, and who at root despise public services.

The 'debt mountain'? As reported in the Western Daily Press of 4th September 2010....., a County Councillor boasted that he could "..make the figures show anything that I want them to..".

The Library Service in Somerset has long been among the poorest funded in the country. No wonder that Somerset is known so well for its yokels.

Too right trufflehunt. It's like the Council are saying..."because these campaigners of a few libraries have tried to trip us up with this delaying-of-the-inev
itable-injunction, we'll still make cuts to the wider service; and that's their fault not ours - so there!"

What the journalist refers to as Government handouts is not money paid as taxes by citizens. It's paid by some citizens and every business. Including banks. Why are you anti-bank handout but pro-citizen handout? The banks paid their taxes too you know?!
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Welfare payments now outstrip income tax receipts so you could actually say businesses are bailing out the citizens every day couldn't you?

How else is Ken Maddock going to continue funding his expenses claims?

@Guy Smiley

".......businesses are bailing out the citizens every day..".

The primary reason why income tax receipts are lower, is because there are so many people on the dole, largely as a result of the banks going bust.

Someone who receives housing benefit pays rent. This is part of a council's, landlord's, business's income.

Every time someone who receives jobseekers allowance buys a 32 pence can of Value peaches at Tescos, they contribute to Tescos income and profits.

Which part of ordinary economics does your smirking mind not understand?

Guy Smiley wrote:
What the journalist refers to as Government handouts is not money paid as taxes by citizens. It's paid by some citizens and every business. Including banks. Why are you anti-bank handout but pro-citizen handout? The banks paid their taxes too you know?! * Welfare payments now outstrip income tax receipts so you could actually say businesses are bailing out the citizens every day couldn't you?

I expect you work in this sector as well and think everyone should keep quiet about this and listen to you, if i was you i would run for council as you've plenty of hot air and like talking down to people and think you know it all.
Ken Maddocks meet your successor.

Guy Smiley wrote:
What the journalist refers to as Government handouts is not money paid as taxes by citizens. It's paid by some citizens and every business. Including banks. Why are you anti-bank handout but pro-citizen handout? The banks paid their taxes too you know?! * Welfare payments now outstrip income tax receipts so you could actually say businesses are bailing out the citizens every day couldn't you?

Just like to add that the only reason businesses can pay taxes are that customers buy there products and services giving them an income, everyone in Britain is paying tax in the form of vat, income tax, fuel tax etc etc and if you got off your soap box its the general public's savings who are bailing out businesses.
Any bets Guy Smiley runs his own company as hes definitely full of himself, well hes full of something.

Well said creecher!

Guy Smiley says wrote:

creecher wrote:

Guy Smiley wrote: What the journalist refers to as Government handouts is not money paid as taxes by citizens. It's paid by some citizens and every business. Including banks. Why are you anti-bank handout but pro-citizen handout? The banks paid their taxes too you know?! * Welfare payments now outstrip income tax receipts so you could actually say businesses are bailing out the citizens every day couldn't you?

I expect you work in this sector as well and think everyone should keep quiet about this and listen to you, if i was you i would run for council as you've plenty of hot air and like talking down to people and think you know it all. Ken Maddocks meet your successor.

Feck off Creecher you effing self opinionated winker!!I am RICH AND SUCCESSFUL by dint of my hard work and intelligence, where as you are a fecking useless piece of sheet.

Oh dear we do seem to have hit a raw nerve and my what a fantastic grasp of the English language you seem to have and it only took you a week to think of that, if i was you i would give myself a pat on the back or then again if i was you suicide would probably sound too good.

Guy Smiley says wrote:

trufflehunt wrote: @Guy Smiley ".......busines ses are bailing out the citizens every day..". The primary reason why income tax receipts are lower, is because there are so many people on the dole, largely as a result of the banks going bust. Someone who receives housing benefit pays rent. This is part of a council's, landlord's, business's income. Every time someone who receives jobseekers allowance buys a 32 pence can of Value peaches at Tescos, they contribute to Tescos income and profits. Which part of ordinary economics does your smirking mind not understand?

The unemployed are unemployed for a reason. The reason is quite simply this...they are unemployable scum. They are not worthy of even a Tesco 32 pence tin of peaches, they are parasites who just leach off the country.Most of them are foreigners who are not even British! Hitler would have sorted them out! You don't understand fekin economics, You are just some liberal socialist worker winker!

Just for the record our little replacement for tauntonsocialistpart
y or Nazi party(whatever floats your boat) foreign means theyre not british.
BIRD BRAIN

And you wonder why young people switch off from any political debate when they see folk like you cyber pie-throwing. It's pathetic, hasn't achieved anything and you should be ashamed.

“Hitler world have sorted them out” eh? what ? am I really reading this? I would suggest that Hitler was only seen as an answer my narrow minded peddlers of cruelty, fear and hatred that found it easier to blame others for problems than look at the real causes and who, as a result of Versailles and the depression managed to portray themselves in a way that took a country of desperate people expiring desperate times with them on a journey that was never going to end well. I don’t know what’s most shocking, the fact that you say that anyone who finds them unemployed – for whatever reason – is scum or that you are actually prepared to openly admit that you think we should look to Hitler for the answer to our problems. And before you start the name calling – I do understand economics, history and what a civilised society looks like, do you?

“Hitler world have sorted them out” eh? what ? am I really reading this? I would suggest that Hitler was only seen as an answer my narrow minded peddlers of cruelty, fear and hatred that found it easier to blame others for problems than look at the real causes and who, as a result of Versailles and the depression managed to portray themselves in a way that took a country of desperate people expiring desperate times with them on a journey that was never going to end well. I don’t know what’s most shocking, the fact that you say that anyone who finds them unemployed – for whatever reason – is scum or that you are actually prepared to openly admit that you think we should look to Hitler for the answer to our problems. And before you start the name calling – I do understand economics, history and what a civilised society looks like, do you?