Obviously such a scheme could be expanded to cover a whole neighbourhood, with the 'labour tax' being a small allocated part of your tax payment to the council, which you could recoup through labour. It would be a way for unemployed people to top up their dole money, whilst at the same time improving the local environment. It would need to be supervised by a neighbourhood committee, working through a jobs coordinator. But the formation of such neighbourhood committees, with a real task to get their teeth into, would be a major positive step forward anyway. Knitting together the community' I salute the idea of allowing volunteers to 'work off' a proportion of the local tax due from them.
Active citizenship means more than an economic contribution to the community.
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