Why pay rates?

Why should we pay rates to a council that is useless? Firstly they had sold our Right of Way to an idiot, who thinks because he owns it he has all the rights to it regardless of law, now we find out that the inspector who signed off our code of compliance signed off things that shouldn't have been. As part of the sale of our house the potential new owners got a building inspector in. It turns out that there is a strip of pink batts missing from in the ceiling, We only have one overflow on our deck instead of two and some of the toilet pipes outside weren't bolted down properly. All these things are easily fixed, but really should have been done before we got code of compliance. Grrr!