28-10-2015, 08:36 PM
(28-10-2015, 07:59 PM)Redordead89 Wrote: Nah mate it sucks if it's anyone dying because of cuts when our country has so much wealth!
But we don't have the wealth, to have the wealth we'd have to put up taxes if we put up taxes then the high earners will leave and we'll end up with less money. Trust me, I f*cking hate higher rate tax, I'm considering going part time to stay under the threshold as for every quid I earn over the threshold I only see 34p in my pay packet.
As for people dying because of the cuts let me give you an example and one where I can talk from a position of knowledge.
There are less police on the streets because of the cuts, about 15,000 less officers (10% for arguments sake) across the country. This is a fact.
Some of those missing police officers were traffic police and some were patrolling officers who used to find time to give motorists tickets, process the worst ones to court and arrest the really dangerous drivers. Because of this lack of officers to deal with traffic offences (most of which are offences because they are dangerous in some way) I see less tickets going through the supervision tray.
As it happens it looks like road death is going to rise this year. I cant prove the correlation but similarly you couldn't prove there isn't a correlation and on a balance of probabilities most would accept I'm probably right. Those extra road deaths then, all those extra families where someone never came home, they are a result of the cuts.