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View! It will be interesting to learn what the increase will be put towards. Dave Paterson: Rough calculation shows my raise will cost me an extra £6 a month. If you don’t think this is acceptable to cover the cost of social care, in your own area, then I’d like to hear why not? Birgit Morris-Hall: Higher tax bands are needed for all those over £ 1 million properties. It’s a joke how little they pay in contrast to normal houses. Would fund a lot of things!!! Marc Carter: It’s simply to burden the masses more. More money out of your pockets to make life that little bit more precarious. And more money in the pot for the next financial crash that you will pay out for. Kadie Williams: Does this include the debt buybacks from bailiffs? Maybe Cheshire East Council should stop sponsoring bike rides in parks and stupid things and put more into it and less into their pockets. Imagine if nobody paid nothing. Matthew George Bailey: Why should I have to pay more Council Tax just because the old and frail didn’t prepare properly for retirement and residential care? You should raid the pensions of those over 60 to pay for this. Emma Budge: If you are in a care home all of your income is utilised and you are left with £20 a week to buy what you please. Older people with care needs who have pensions do pay towards their care – which depletes very quickly when people are living longer. Ray Edge: I’d happily pay more if we actually got value for money! Mick Warren: 3 per cent of this is ring fenced to go towards the spiralling costs of social care as our population lives longer. Emma Wattis: And I’ll bet the cuts will continue though....