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Ha Ha, Ho Ho, Some bureaucrats have got to go.
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20 years ago my rates were $678 a year, about a fortnights pension cheque a year. Today they are $1662 for just 6 months. That is about a months pension but twice a year. In fact, go back 28 years & my rates were $123.
From another perspective, my rates have gone up by an average of 19% every year for the last 20 years, & a whopping 25.8% every year for the last 28 years.
So what extra services do we get for about 16% of a pensioners income. Well we no longer have 8 hours of library in our local hall, replaced by 3 or 4 hours of mobile truck, & no longer on Saturday morning, so workers have no access.
They closed our tip/transfer station in the name of efficiency, so our 1000 residents can each drive 24 kilometres to the town tip, rather than a council truck make the run a couple of times a week.
I think we do still get a truck with a load of bitumen, & 2 men with shovels, every couple of years to patch our potholes, Opps I mean road, but It’s a while since I saw it. If it still comes it is a bloody expensive truck.
Our Rural watch has a thousand members, so over 1000 rateable properties here. That’s at least $3,300,000 income, & what do we get for that, a cast of thousands sitting on expensive chairs in town, & stuff all else I would say.
These ridiculous rate increases have to stop, & about all that can do that in our area is to reduce the useless bums on seats at the council. There are definitely no economies that could be made around here. At this rate, council rates will exceed my total income in about 12 years.