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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan
Without going into too much detail, and to put it in a breif and simple way. The more deprived the area, the less money in the local economy from both businesses and private individuals. A less prosperous local economy means mor financial burden on the local authority.
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Business tax from ALL businesses is distributed throughout the country not in the council where the business is located. Wealthy areas subsidise poorer areas. Deprived areas also get more individual per person NHS funding.
In the general scheme of things you would expect Oxfordshire to be a fairly wealthy council, yet the local roads are some of the worst maintained in the country.