Osbourne's July budget

CLAPTON

stator wrote: »

More taxing of the poor, more giving away to the rich. Usually Tory stuff.

the poor don't pay tax : they get subsidised by the working people

stator

CLAPTON wrote: »

the poor don't pay tax : they get subsidised by the working people

Perhaps in Daily Mail Propaganda land

Pennywise

Herzlos wrote: »

It'd be a lot easier if they weren't encouraged to waste money via the whole "If you don't use up your budget this year you'll get less next year" nonsense that plagues all government departments (and big businesses).

I've witnessed first hand schools buying half a dozen playstations they didn't need, so that the money would be available to them next year just in case. Because if your budget reduces any, you'll never get it back.

Yep, amazing what our local council wastes in Feb and March to use up their budgets. Usually re-painting road markings that don't need repainting, or buying huge numbers of flower planters.

Other years, they've run out of money early in the year so routine maintenance of council buildings gets stopped meaning long term damage and sometimes even closure/demolition.

I'd go further and suggest that the PS changes to "business-style" accounting of profit & loss account and balance sheet under the accruals/matching concept rather than the current "project/dept" cash based accounting. It would be a mammoth change of thinking but would massively improve efficiency and services and remove this "stop-start" approach to PS spending.