Business Police protection

Caught a story on the news last night about armed police escorting security vans in cash collections. The reporter pointed out that this cost money to provide and asked one of the officers how he thought the public would react to police providing these services at tax-payer expense to private firms.
The officer gave some waffle about community and crime etc. Wrong! The answer that should have been given is that private firms are paying for these services. Whenever someone goes off on how taxpayers are funding private firms they should be reminded that such firms are taxpayers too. Not only is there a basic tax on businesses, but they also have to pay council rates at a much higher rate than residences without, I might add, the same degree of services provided.

No refuse collection; if you're on a private road, no street cleaning, no street lighting. You want any of that you need to pay for it yourself. If you are on a public road then your rateable value is likely to be higher and that means higher council rates.

Businesses are taxpayers too.