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Where does the money go?
- Dawn Hoskins (30th Jul 2008 - 12:37:45)
A previous thread prompted me to look into Government costs. These are the official figures but do not show where wasted costs are buried.
- Social protection £169,000,000,000
- Health £111,000,000,000
- Education £82,000,000,000
- Public order £33,000,000,000
- Defence £33,000,000,000
- Interest they owe on Debts £31,000,000,000
- Industry, agriculture, unemployment £22,000,000,000
- Transport £21,000,000,000
- The Arts Council spent 77,000 sending a team of artists to the North Pole to make a snowman.
- Quangos cost over 22 billion per year.
- Local government pension schemes are in deficit to the tune of 27 billion. The taxpayer will fund the difference.
- 459 books were withdrawn from the EU's Luxembourg library last year. The cost to taxpayers was 2,138 per book.
- Ken Livingstone's office cost 13.9 million to run. He had 58 media and marketing personnel!
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Re: Where does the money go?
- Rhys G (31st Jul 2008 - 18:12:06)
That's one expensive Snowman, but just thing of all the benefits it gave us tax payers...!
Also, I thought to be "PC" we now have to call them Snow "people", same as gingerbread men.
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