We used to pay taxes for safe communities, libraries, community leisure and sports facilities, fit for purpose schools and hospitals, quick diagnosis and treatments within the NHS, unblocked road drains, clean road signs, emergency services arriving on time, roads without potholes and drains and rivers that were regularly cleared to prevent flooding.
Now we pay higher taxes yet all of the above are diminishing - yet our tax money is being spent on endless wars, MPs expenses, politicians and royalty flying around the world on private jets, whilst telling us plebs to reduce our carbon footprints, dodgy contracts given to government cronies and endless forms of digital ID and surveillance.
We are being fleeced by our own governments to be on the receiving end of diminished public services and infrastructures but at the same time, the super-rich are benefiting from the biggest transfer of wealth in history. The social contract is now an absolute piss-take.