No - you're still not getting it.
You got yourself into the position, deliberately, in the first place.

There is nothing for you to feel righteous or smug about.

You got yourself a debt, deliberately, and you paid it off, at slightly less than you should have done.

Getting into debt deliberately for vanity does not make you grown-up, clever or cool, and it's not "sticking it to the man". It's childish, idiotic, and you've cheated the taxpayer out of a few hundred quid.

Whoop-de-doo.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 13:22, 2 replies)

Makes
a change from them cheating us out of a few hundred quid.
(dchurch bah, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 13:39, closed)

Like when?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 13:40, closed)

Like
taking 200 quid a month to NOT fix the f*&*ing roads for a start.

If the tax is paid in advance, why I am still driving through more crators than are on the moon, simply to get to work?

Trying to get me to pay for two properties at the same time, when I can clearly only live in one is another.

Charging me council tax for my house when it was empty for 7 months following a fire, etc....
(dchurch bah, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 13:53, closed)

I think you're crossing wires. Incompetence I have never defended.
But one's duty to pay council tax is a burden we all must bear.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 13:58, closed)

True
...and probably right about the crossed-wires.

I just see 200 quid a month to have my bins emptied 25 times a year as a bit strong, nay, theft by menaces (as I'll be threatened soon enough if I refuse to pay).
(dchurch bah, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 14:07, closed)

Given that the council apparently offered to cut this bill - freely and without being prompted - I'm not certain that he 'cheated' the taxpayer at all. If they offered to cut my bill by 500 quid, I'd gladly accept.

Also - "I know not paying one's council tax is a bloody stupid thing to do, but I was young and dumb back then." Seems he's already pretty much accepted that which you're currently berating him for.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 13:46, closed)

I thought that was on the invite.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 14:03, closed)