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T_i_B

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2. If it's a public service....

Reply to DetlefK (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 22, 2015, 08:44 AM

Dec 2015

....then it's paid for out of taxation, and should really be like the NHS (i.e free at the point of use)

If you've paid taxes all your life, only to have your local council take the piss like this, then you will be entitled to be a bit annoyed by this, especially given how rationed care for the elderly is already.

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Council proposes �25.92 'lifting charge' to help elderly up when they fall [View all] T_i_B Dec 2015 OP

Sounds reasonable. DetlefK Dec 2015 #1

If it's a public service.... T_i_B Dec 2015 #2

Fuck taxes. Privatise all such services, Ghost Dog Dec 2015 #5

Yeah, cause helping old people is just like serving pizza. GeorgeGist Dec 2015 #4

Only rich people deserve help. PSPS Dec 2015 #3

Shhhh next the Repugs will want that here. newfie11 Dec 2015 #6

I see a business opportunity for Mike Ashley here non sociopath skin Dec 2015 #7

Oxfordshire used to have its own service, but abolished it so that now Careline is available only LeftishBrit Dec 2015 #8