Death and Council Tax

In 1817 Benjamin Franklin re-used a previous quote originally written by Daniel Defoe and said "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

Many things have changed since 1817, but death and taxes have certainly survived!!

This week saw Shepton Mallet Town Councils annual fist fight over the budget and precept, to be fair, this time things were dealt with fairly amicably and entirely predictably, more of this later. The whole process set me thinking as how it is possible that a small group of people, from a small town in Somerset, with, well lets be charitable, honest intentions for the good burghers of the town, can have such wide ranging views on just about everything.

For the rest of this story see this weeks Shepton in Blue: http://sheptonconservatives.blogspot.com/2012/01/death-and-council-tax.html