Funding childcare or fixing potholes

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Funding childcare or fixing potholes

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 16th October 2011 11:25.

Coventry Council needs to save money, lots of money. Its predicament can be distilled to a very local debate: parents versus potholes.Should it...

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[CleverClogs (RIP)]

Re: Funding childcare or fixing potholes

Fund neither and employ children to fill in the potholes.

Some might even use cold rolled tar instead.

[garlok]

Re: Funding childcare or fixing potholes

There is another issue here. There should be no need of a choice here. It is because of local authority and central government negligent mismanagement of financial matters. Those of us who drive pay something called Vehicle Excise Licence fees, colloquially Road Fund Licence. Legally this money is raised and can ONLY be used for the maintenance, building and repair of the roads. However it has been stolen over a number of generations by all administrations to prop up the obscene level of salaries and pensions of public servants and any other wasteful projects they can think of EXCEPT repairing the roads.

Garlok

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

Re: Funding childcare or fixing potholes

There is another issue here. There should be no need of a choice here. It is because of local authority and central government negligent mismanagement of financial matters. Those of us who drive pay something called Vehicle Excise Licence fees, colloquially Road Fund Licence. Legally this money is raised and can ONLY be used for the maintenance, building and repair of the roads. However it has been stolen over a number of generations by all administrations to prop up the obscene level of salaries and pensions of public servants and any other wasteful projects they can think of EXCEPT repairing the roads.

Nonsense - the last time Vehicle Excise Duty was hypothecated or "ring fenced" for improving the public highway was in 1923; ever since then, it has been paid into the Consolidated Fund. In the late 1930s, some of it was doubtless "squandered" on building Hurricane and Spitfire aircraft that would subsequently be used to see off the invasion by a certain German road builder of whom you may have heard.

Should those monies have been spent on road improvements rather than on - belatedly - improving the country's defences?

[garlok]

Re: Funding childcare or fixing potholes

I see no change to the regulations for raising that revenue. And your analogy to a time of dire emergency to be frivolous.

"The Consolidated Fund" has been a cover up and excuse for fiscal mismanagement corruption etc as I said for a very long period of time. Of course undoubtedly you will say shortly that NI contributions have nothing to do with our pensions and health care provision as they are funded by the "Consolidated Fund".

Garlok