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Good morning, guys. Today we are going to talk about public services.

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First of all, I would like that you go to the window and look for three different public services that you can see outside.

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For example, parks, waste collection and police are examples of public services.

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In Spain, some public services are provided by the national government

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and others are provided by the autonomous community

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for example, Castille y León, Galicia, Cataluña

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or Comunidad de Madrid

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and also for local councils

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such as Vicálvaro, Moratalaz, Fuencarral

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Our constitution guarantees everyone's right to public services.

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On one hand, the national government provides public services such as social security, tax collection and national police.

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Regarding autonomous communities, most regional governments are responsible for education, health, and public transport, such as metro, buses.

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Some autonomous communities have their own police.

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For example, Mossos d'Esquadra in Catalonia.

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On the other hand, local councils are generally responsible for services such as waste collection, parks, and sports facilities.

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There are two important words that you need to know by heart.

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They are taxes and budget.

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Public services are paid for with taxes.

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Taxes are deducted from workers' salaries and also the profits that companies make.

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But we also pay taxes when we buy products or when we use a service.

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This is called VAT, V-A-T.

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For example, we can buy products such as food, clothes,

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clothes and when we use a service such as transport, referring to budget we can define

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it as a plan that shows how much money you have and how you will spend it.

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So basically it's a plan for how to spend money, imagine you have money pocket and your

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parents give you five euros each week so how are you going to spend or save that

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money are you going to buy candies are you going to save it to buy a new

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video game so this is the budget do you know that the national government's

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budget is about 470 000 million euros per year a lot of this money is used to pay the pensions

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of retired people such as your grandparents but also we use it to support people who are

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employees, we use it for culture, housing, education, health, research, development and

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innovation, defense, public security and prisons. So although we have to pay money to the government

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with taxes and with our salary or through the things that we buy or use, it's really good

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because we obtain a lot of things in reward to summarize what we have learned we can say that

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it's our duty to pay taxes to finance public services some of these public services are

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provided by the national government and others are provided by the autonomous community governments

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or the local councils bye bye guys i hope you enjoyed and learned a little bit see you