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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Why increase funding when it needs pruning?
If the size of the public sector is reduced substantially, those remaining can have a pay rise based on increased productivity, just like the railway workers could, and some of that money could be returned to the taxpayer.
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Nice idea, who do you proposed will do all the things your substantially reduced public sector will no longer be able to do?
The problem with armchair accountants is they don't appreciate all the things public services do which they take for granted. These are almost certainly the same people who'd be the first to complain when the impacts of their wholesale root and branch pruning start to show. After 12 years of the Conservatives reducing the funding for local government there isn't really anything else left to chop, not when many of the services carried out by local government are a duty so can't be avoided. And by the way, many of the cuts proposed for local government are still in the pipeline, so it's going to get worse than it is now.
It's the Conservative funding model which has had a very large impact on the social care local council's can offer resulting in the crises we're experiencing now and has resulted in the introduction of the social care levy. If the Government felt social care could be cured by reducing staff numbers even more, they would've cut it even more. The fact they're now taxing us more to try and reverse a cock-up of their own making shows the cut cut cut mentality just doesn't work.