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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
This, this & this again
I pulled this from my HMRC app , it’s for last tax year
This shows a breakdown of how your taxes have be spent by government.
Description
Welfare (21.6%)
Health (20.2%)
State Pensions (11.4%)
National Debt Interest (11.1%)
Education (10.2%)
Defence (5.2%)
Public Order and Safety (4.4%)
Transport (4.2%)
Business and Industry (4.2%)
Government Administration (2.1%)
Housing and Utilities, like street lighting (1.8%)
Environment (1.4%)
Culture, like sports, libraries, museums (1.2%)
Overseas Aid (0.7%)
Outstanding payment- to 4b- Ell/n 5%)
My local council spending
Adult Social Care and Children's Care account for 80% of all net Council expenditure.
Meanwhile, in a neighbouring council
https://www.stockton.gov.uk/article/...ds-this-winter
These numbers to me are petrifying |
Indeed if you look at the figures, then over 50% of all Government spending is on welfare, health and pensions. So if the consensus is that saving need to be made, then these are are areas which need to be targeted.
Except, although logically obvious, they are political dynamite. No party wants to campaign on ‘vote for us and we will cut pensions and money for the NHS - because that is absolutely necessary’. Won’t end well.
So we get the short-term views, vote for us, it’ll all be fine! Maybe, maybe, if (and it’s a big if), you can grow the economy then, fine, maybe health etc. can be better funded. But maybe in the short term, to do this requires cuts in the above services to invest in others?