wher does all the money go?
I work in the private sector of the Theatre industry (no funding), my desk is a piece of kitchen worktop with a not flat monitored aging computer on it, the heating is insufficent to heat the office so I dress accordingly, it is hot in summer so I open the tiny window and dess accordingly, when we send internal mail it is on the reverse of "scrap" paper.
Local council offices are air conditioned, centrally heated, all have nice deks with nice 17" flat screen monitors, in winter they control the temperature in the offices by opening a window and sending my council tax out into the street, so does the loal cop shop, the fire station and local, council funded (half empty) theatre. ther memos are all outsourced to a local printing company and printed on premium glossy paper, notification of bin collection changes came in a glossy 4 page brochure, it used to come on a piece of photocopied A5.
Thats where a lot of your hard earned goes.
IMHO