Why do not like to pay the taxes? Because one or two weeks of inconvenience in the snow is more acceptable than to pay for machines and bureaucracy and people who worry that their own street must be the first to receive treatment. Also the government has a legacy of ridicule for snow, and you can google "wrong kind of snow" to learn more. And the very worst is when the train operators will not report to work because it is too cold.

In 1999, the trains stopped because it was too hot. The trains stopped because it was too cold. You can read about it!

For the floods this month, the government has claimed it is the wrong kind of rain. And you can google "wrong kind of rain" to read about it.

It is ridiculous. So why give them more money?