Council Tax Kiss your sorry Ass Goodbye!

As I indicated in my post Do we need Local councils my obvious verdict was no, so council tax abolition would be in the Capitalist Party manifesto as it is basically a crudely disguised property tax. As far as I can tell it replaced the rates system of which I know nothing at this point,not to forget the poll tax which briefly replaced the rates before that and helped we are told seal Thatcher's fate -but which as far as I understood it as I did not watch politics as closely as I do these days was a much fairer system in that everybody had to pay it and I do not think it was progressive to use that awful euphemism.

What will it be replaced with I can hear the naysayers whine. How about: Nothing! I know the States have sales tax and there would need to be a transitional stage as these things need to be phased out over a period of time and would cause too much chaos and dislocation if introduced overnight.  But the direction of travel would be to privatise all the services the council now performs and thus the money people pay in council tax would be spent by them directly on services provided by privately run companies.

Here is a crucially important point that cannot be stressed enough and it applies to local government just as much as to national government. There is a world of difference between genuinely privately owned and run services and private companies working for the State via contracted out services. The difference is that between night and day. The mixed economy is statism with a figleaf of private company participation. The middle man ie the state is the paymaster and has overall supervision of the services and is motivated by government office terms and political electoral cycles which results in miss allocation of funds,short termism,political grandstanding,corruption, bribes, political favouritism in short crony capitalism and should not be in way shape or form confused with genuine free market laissez faire capitalism although it is deliberately conflated with it by politically motivated anti capitalists who seek to smear the ideology when such partnerships end up as they always do with the Carillion Syndrome and capitalism takes the rap..