UK schools receive 300k CO2 monitors in gov initiative to reduce COVID19 spread

Re:UK schools receive 300k CO2 monitors in gov initiative to... by lbriner on Monday January 17, 2022 @09:27AM (#29966820)

Why do people constantly talk about the Government funding things? The Tax Payer funds government spending, the government simply allocates is, so to spend X 100 million + requires cutting other services or raising taxes, neither of which are popular.

Taxation also causes all sorts of other issues since a large percentage of the population don't pay tax (or much tax), so then there are issues of fairness. Add it to VAT? Income tax? Corporation tax?

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Re:UK schools receive 300k CO2 monitors in gov initiative to... by neilwilson on Monday January 17, 2022 @10:43AM (#29967665)

Somebody who needs to read https://new-wayland.com/blog/how-the-governments-super-plati...

The people who work on school renovations earn money and spend it into the economy. Lots of people will earn more because of it. The only downside is that some private projects will be delayed or scrapped because people are working on school renovations instead. That's the actual cost of public projects.

It's never a matter of money. Only ever a matter of alternative uses for the effort of real people.

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