Bowland Rider wrote:I saw the thread on Public sector pensions and it got me thinking. I live alone, no kids now or ever. Single income sucks 'cos council tax is 25% less, why isnt it 50% off? I work and pay lots of tax which goes towards everyone else's benefits. What is this, or other governments doing for Sinkies (single income, no kids). Nowt!
Single occupants don't receive a 25% discount on their council tax.
The enjoy a 50% surcharge on the tax the council expects from each adult in a two adult household, and that's the least of it.
My father now falls into this category, even though he paid taxes all through his working life and fathered three tax paying children. As a reward the council demands that he, a pensioner, pays it three times as much tax as each of the four employed adults who live next door, and whose earnings probably total at least 10 times what my father receives as a pension.
What an unfair system - it makes certain that many affluent, multiple income households have their local services costs subsidised by those much worse of than they are.
All making very good recovery on STATE health - it was something that had to be paid for, like in the US, I dread to think how we would have managed.....
I know I am! 
