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So, what's the best way to pay for all this?

Election Focus: We enjoy the amenity of parks, galleries and garbage free streets but debate continues over the best way to finance these costly services.

Walk around our towns and cities, looking at some of the oldest buildings, and you can see the scars left by taxation. The bricked-up windows are testament to the desire to avoid the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century levy on glass as a luxury item.