What would you prefer?

Question

1) To pay your taxes and contribute to the NHS Defence,and Education system, to finance research into deadly illness etc etc

2) Not to pay any tax, have no-where to take your loved ones when they are sick, to educate them privately, to see terrorism grow as a result of not having any funding for the security of our nation.

I only ask, as many Y/A users seem to have a thing against paying for the services our taxes provide, yet seem to complain daily about the services they get. If you want your own team of doctors and nurses the second you enter a hospital for instance, you have to pay for it. How do people propose to have these benefits without everyone contributing?

Jizzum: The problem with scroungers is sadly something that will always exist, it did under the last govt as it will the next. All we can do as tax payers is to dob in the cheats that take money from the deserved cases. Nothing gets my goat more than these spongers at home all day, while the rest of us are working, however, we still need to keep this country up and running, even taking the morons into account. And we know money is wasted, as many have said, but govt is very very complex, or at least the running of a country is, and money will be wasted just because of the scale we're dealing with. Hopefully, the waste and cheating will slowly be vapourized leaving more money in the pot. Until then we just got to keep paying and be proud we are taxpayers. Taxpayers of a great nation, and we are great, even with the ponces on board.. Mick

Answer 1

I am proud to pay my way.

However, over the last 27 years there has been an increasing problem.Thatcher only escaped being noticed by hiding the £1000 Billion she used to keep people on the dole and still keep direct tax down. How did she do it? By running down all the services, closing hospitals and staving schools of money.

Unfortunately Major carried on and Blair + Brown have been trying to undo the damage they did.

I think this is why Cameron will not say about tax cuts he knows he cannot.

Another problem is the massive bureaucracy loaded on us. Is it only me or did we notice a ten fold or more increase in paperwork form 1979 till now?

Why all this paper work? Is it Labour? is it the EU? No! its our own press who crucify anyone who cannot prove conclusively every little fact.

Answer 2

(1) I am quite happy to pay taxes and contribute to the NHS,
Education and all research and Defence. I think most people are, we just do not see why we have to contribute to the upkeep of people who just sit on their backsides and do nothing. Also I do not see why people who have not contributed should be able to claim. Any other Insurance Company will tell you if you dont keep up your payments..........You can`t claim.

Answer 3

I agree that health care defence and public utilities should be funded by the community via their taxes, what is actually happening is having sold off the rest of the family jewels the funding is being ripped of to provide jobs and investment opportunities for the old boys network. Anytime soon it will be announced that the National Health Service is not working and the only thing to do is privatise it.

Answer 4

Congratulations on presenting a false choice.

By the spelling, I'm assuming you're speaking of the UK, but the same principle applies on this side of the Big Pond. Governments are designed to provide for those things that the people as individuals either cannot do for themselves or what would be an extraordinary burden for them to do for themselves. It was not designed to provide for things like retirement benefits, medical care for the old, etc., things that people should be providing for themselves.

I have no problem paying taxes to provide for the essential functions of the government. I have a big problem when it comes to paying taxes to provide for things that I can do myself, for it's going to cost me a lot more for some bureaucrat in Washington (or London, as the case may be) to do those kind of things for me.

Answer 5

Mick - Great question.

Terry W - Brilliant Answer.

Sadly both will fall on the deaf ears of those who prefer to moan and fall back on knee-jerk comments based on their own bigotry and hypocrisy.

Answer 6

I don't have a problem with paying taxes for services - I just resent many millions of pounds being wasted every year as a result of bad management and bad choices!!

Answer 7

i don't mind paying my taxes ... what i don't like is the fact that my taxes are going towards sponging chavs who spit out kids like there is no tomorrow and claim all the benefits going ... u know the ones who sit on their door steps with their cider and spliffs hanging out of their mouths ... i pay for that!!
the system needs an overhaul to make it fair ....

Answer 8

well i would probably choose the first answer fro sure. but the only thing is, there are no NHS dentist anywhere near me!! so I'm paying tax for all these services which i struggle to get myself!!