Spending is all wrong
I READ the March issue of the Swansea Leader with dismay. The council has devoted a whole page, not to explaining where they are making savings but to where they are increasing expenditure. The net result of which is an increase in council tax of 3.8 per cent, a figure well above inflation. At a time when council tax payers are having to cut back their own household budgets Swansea Council are hitting them with an unjustified tax increase.
It is hard to believe that in such a huge organisation they can't find more efficiencies and areas of saving to help tax payers.
To celebrate the centenary of Dylan Thomas they are planning to spend £500,000 and for other cultural activities including the Blue Plaque Scheme £200,000. Do they really need to spend these huge amounts at any time let alone in a time of austerity? Surely these are 'nice to haves' not necessities.
There is even an argument that the Leader itself is a luxury that could be cut or suspended to save costs. Councillors who voted for the council tax increase need to come into the real world with the rest of us. In this real world we are focusing on necessities not 'nice to haves'.
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Tony Cuff
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3 Comments
by johnmajor2
Wednesday, March 13 2013, 6:06AM
“Benny Get your facts right on the Following
The Quadrant Bus Station was a European & National Assembly Grant
The LC2 was paid on a loan against Swansea Council Tax Payers
That is why we Get a discount card on Producing a Swansea Council Tax Bill
The Swansea People are shareholders”
by Neathboy234
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 12:43PM
“The councils in England are having to make massive cutbacks, i dread to think what things are going to look like over the border in 20 years time.”
by bennyhill4
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 11:28AM
“So you did'nt agree with the LC2 because that was a nice to have, or the referbishment of the bus station because that was a nice to have. Unfortunately if we dont spend on nice to haves then in about 10-20 years the whole place which is swansea will look like a ghetto”