Local services in Wales will suffer if the Conservatives take over the Senedd
Think before voting: the Conservatives are promising to freeze council taxes in Wales if they take control of the Assembly – but this will benefit the rich far more than working-class people.
The Welsh Conservatives have said they will freeze council tax for at least two years if they take control of the Welsh Assembly after the local elections in May – but this is a threat, not a promise.
The party has said it will fund a council tax freeze, but there is no guarantee that it will follow through on any such pledge. Even if it does, this only means that it will maintain services as they are.
So what happens when events demand spending beyond that level?
Answer: we won’t see it – they’ll say there isn’t enough money (which is a lie).
Also: who benefits most from a council tax freeze? The rich.
Taxation is a way of redistributing wealth, ensuring that poorer people are able to enjoy publicly-funded services for all, rather than those services being restricted only to those who can afford to pay for them out of their own pocket.
It also ensures that funding is available for projects that would not otherwise receive support from private individuals.
By freezing council taxes, then, the Conservatives are pledging to let rich people keep more of their money while depriving the poor of the services they need to get by.
But the Tories don’t tell you that.
Source: Tories pledge to freeze council tax in Wales for at least two years
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Something along the same lines actually WORKED in Scotland for many years. However, not being implemented by the Tories the idea was to have people pay a reasonable amount but still be able to provide services to them.
Councils could choose to ‘opt in’ if they wished to a scheme which capped council tax rises but gave them additional monies from Holyrood. Certainly this was a win-win and helped people greatly after the Credit Crunch.
Of course the Tory idea is too completely freeze tax, completely freeze spending and provide no assistance. T’was ever thus with the Tories, the party of cuts, the ‘Nasty Party’
No doubt the Tories will try to sell this as the successful Scottish scheme rather than the barefaced cut to necessary services that it actually is..