Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-30-2010

[andrewducker]

• Public to be given power to veto council tax bills. Stupid idea. We already have that power - we can vote them out.
  (tags: tax uk EpicFail)
• Complex benefits system to be replaced by one payment.
  Could be good, could be bad. Certainly, anything that makes the form-filling simpler is a good thing.
  (tags: welfare uk politics)
• Tokyo's 'oldest man' had been dead for 30 years
  (tags: death japan news wtf)
• Big Five Personality types affect women's approach to childbirth
  (tags: personality children psychology)
• A rebuttal to the gerrymandering claims made by Labour
  (tags: politics uk)

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm.... I know quite a few women who are fairly neurotic and delaying having kids!

Vote on council tax

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

This morning on R4 a govt spokesman mentioned casually that the cheapest way to have these referendum would be when people were voting for councillors anyway.

Re: Vote on council tax

[andrewducker]

But that makes no sense! You vote for councillors every four years (or is it five), whereas council tax is set every year.

The current system is simple - people tell you their plans, you vote them in, they carry them out, if you don't like the results you vote them out again. Voting people in because you like their plans, and then tying their hands so they can't actually carry them out is just dumb!

Re: Vote on council tax

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

It's a sinister plan. Think about it...

[skington.livejournal.com]

Because making it easier for people to decide that they pay too much tax worked so well for California.

[andrewducker]

Exactly. Pretty much destroyed their state government.