I used $20 of electricity but my bill is nearly $50 because of the taxes and extra fees, including an “affordability” charge. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If you’re trying to make my bill more affordable, shouldn’t that be subtracted instead of added?<\/p> Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s not about making your bill, or any of our bills, more affordable. It\u2019s about transferring money to the political class, and those whose first they need.<\/p> <\/p> But Joe knows that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I used $20 of electricity but my bill is nearly $50 because of the taxes and extra fees, including an “affordability” charge. If you’re trying to make my bill more affordable, shouldn’t that be subtracted instead of added? Joe Doakes It\u2019s not about making your bill, or any of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81291,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81290\/revisions\/81291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/excel.jpg\")
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