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Going by 2010 data, Dover District's income, including business rates and council tax, was about £27 million a year, but a lot more goes to the central Treasury (the "Government") than comes back.
This was explained to me in 2010 at a DDC meeting for prospect councillors.
Consequently, DDC would have no need to raise council tax, but could actually reduce it significantly, if districts didn't need to hand over almost all the money to the nanny state, just to get three pennies and a pittance back in return.
And the figure mentioned above doesn't include income tax, fuel tax, VAT and so many other taxes collected in Dover District.
WE ARE BEING RIPPED OFF!
The central Government then goes and flings the money gathered from all districts and counties, flinging it far and wide, to Brussels, and to pay off interest on the Public Debt, on quangos, on Job Centre staff and on the NHS, to cater for the millions of unemployed victims of an insane central governing policy, victims who depend on benefits to survive.
As a result, local Government is not held accountable for the immense money-squandering done by the centralised Soviet-style system, there is no curb on mass immigration, and the costs of NHS and education and housing benefits and job-seekers allowances and child allowances for millions of people and their dog from all and sundry just sky-rocket.
The Chancellor just borrows more money to equalise the "balance" sheet, or gets the Bank of England to print a few more tens of billions of pounds. Job done.
What we need is local Government receiving all its own revenues - and responsible for all benefits paid - in its own administrative area, receiving nothing from the central Treasury and in return keeping a higher proportion of taxes collected locally.
And very importantly, local Government WOULD NOT under any circumstance be allowed to accumulate debt of any sort, nor print its own money or bonds or any paper values.
All this would bring about accountability, our social services would not be open to everyone from everywhere in the world, and local jobs would be created and given to local people for whom the local Government would otherwise have to pay benefits FROM OUR LOCAL TAXES.
The employers would be held accountable if they turned down local people for no acceptable reason, and made to pay the outstanding bills for benefits and social services in a proportionate measure.
And we wouldn't be paying a penny to the EU, and our manufacture would be made in Britain, not in China or India, except for Chinese vases and Indian teak ornaments, which are typically not made in Britain.
We would not be importing manufacture from countries, such as India, that have "Clarks" written underneath the sole, or "Wedgewood" printed on the box.
Our trousers would be made in the UK, not China, and so, if a war broke out and all trade stopped flowing, we wouldn't suddenly find ourselves running around without trousers.
The current situation will not last long, it has to change.