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Subject: Re: who provide for the other 60% (public sector)
SL-Mark: Is that like essential services such as road maintenance, bin collections (both often tendered out to private companies) ... or straight forward council and government workers.
"It is your beloved socialist leaders that got us in to this mess. The health service is overflowing with bureaucrats, making these life saving services unaffordable"
I think you'll find that the current bureaucratic mess dates back to the Thatcher years. I hardly call her socialist
"40% of the UK working population are wealth creators (private sector) who provide for the other 60% (public sector) as well as the infirm, elderly, unemployed and young."
40%+60%+ how much do the infirm and unemployed working age people account for?
"Ah tax (and only tax from the private sector can be counted),"
Nope. Taxes come from many sources... even your council workers pay taxes as do all government workers. Plus in the case of the NHS much of the budget goes on buying equipment from private companies. I know... I've worked for a company providing hospitals with artificial joint kits.
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