The cult of council tax cuts‏

UNISON national secretary Heather Wakefield, writing for the public finance website, castigates the growing practice of local authorities to freeze or cut council tax at a time of increasing demand for front line services:

‘Up and down the country councils are creating holes in their budgets that didn’t need to be there – holes which put very little back into the pockets of the poorest taxpayers, who suffer most. But while David Cameron seems to have realised rather late in the day that savage cuts are bad economics, the race for the council tax freeze or the largest cut is well and truly underway across all three main parties.’
http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/02/the-cult-of-council-tax-cuts-by-heather-wakefield/