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"Useful and essential community services cost money. Without the input of community money, people who are old, sick or unemployed will not be able to exist. We would have no decent healthcare for the vast majority of people, no education, no public transport, no environmental protection and no services for the aged. The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs wants a combination of best practices, access, high quality and accessibility. It makes little sense to formulate such nice objectives without providing sufficient resources to enable these objectives to actually be achieved. By constantly striving to cut taxes, we make it impossible to provide good services and the solidarity required for these. People constantly maintain that the cost of services can be cut without compromising on quality. That would have to be achieved by calling in private profit-oriented businesses, by reducing the number of services, by having the work done by fewer people and by increasing contributions from users. In the Netherlands, years of cut-backs have resulted in the closure of small hospitals, waiting lists for healthcare, a shortage of new teachers and a severe reduction in services in what used to be a good public transport system. At the end of the day, this report is based on a model such as this. As it is ultimately the weakest who pay, I reject this model."@en1
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