The word is "shakedown". Local government in Britain has been trying to find new ways of raising revenues all the time.
And, as for all governments everywhere, they find the concept of restraining expenses to be obscene
12 posted on 12/10/2006 12:47:36 PM PST by SauronOfMordor
(A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)