These cuts will prove very costly for the taxpayer
TWO HUNDRED jobs to go in regard to Oxfordshire’s children’s centres.
That is a fraction of the jobs to be lost in the near future thanks to the government cuts. These cuts are supposed to save the taxpayer’s money, yet with the resulting job losses it will cost the taxpayer even more.
For example, when Maggie Thatcher privatised the steel industry, she claimed that each steel worker was being subsided £5 per week by the taxpayer, not adding that the same steel worker was paying £30 per week in tax! Another gain for the taxpayer?
As with the railways, instead of subsidising workers before privatising the railways, now we are subsidising shareholders. Another gain for the taxpayer?
GLYN LIMMER
Roosevelt Road
Long Hanborough
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