Smokers pay extra taxes to fund any extra treatment they might require on the NHS.
Surely vegetarians should be treated in the same manner?
2007-10-02 02:42:52 · 20 answers · asked by The Surgeon's assistant 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
They are a drain on society
2007-10-02 02:53:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well of coarse smokers pay extra taxes, that's the goverment for you. But how fair would it be if a smoker was a vegetarian and had to be taxed on both? Talk about getting screwed from both ends!!!!
2007-10-02 02:52:37 · answer #2 · answered by celexa 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rather silly I think What about sportsmen/women with their injuries, elderly people with their complaints,, Do they all have to pay for treatment? The tax on cigarettes is not specifically a health tax... It began life as an excise duty the same as on alcohol. It is part of the general tax kitty, not ringfenced for any particular purpose.
2007-10-02 03:12:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What? thats the stupidest question iv ever seen. EVERYONE eats vegetables, everyone, even if they dont know it and so they should they are healthy for us!!
So no why the hell would we want to discourage people from eating them through taxation?
Maby we could just tax vegetarians because they eat ONLY veg and the like because they are weak and always get colds and have iron deficiencies :) Only joking!
2007-10-02 02:47:27 · answer #4 · answered by Stephen Burkusmaximus 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you actually research the topic and stop talking out of your anus?
Despite the attempts of the agricultural industry to push meat inclusive diets as the healthiest, independent research shows that vegetarians live longer, healthier lives than their carnivorous counterparts.
2007-10-02 02:54:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah - free cigarettes and alcohol and make everyone eat free fatty meat - that'll save the NHS!!!
While you're at it, why not make binge drinking compulsory for everyone over 16 and ban exercise. Perhaps a free car for everyone, a ban on wind farms and alternate energy and anything organic to be illegal.
That way there would be no one left and the NHS wouldn't have to worry about money.
2007-10-02 02:53:54 · answer #6 · answered by Carrie S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wait a minute, You may have something, Tobacco is surely a vegetable and they tax that, I'm with you mate, Tax one, Tax all it's only fair.
2007-10-02 05:24:09 · answer #7 · answered by john m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they should! ha ha. why should smokers pay this extra tax and then get put to the end of the Que when needing surgery, surely they have paid more taxes get to the front of the Que! Make veggies pay more tax
2007-10-02 02:51:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
no....i think taxes should be raised on things like cigarette's and alcohol we don't have to have them we have to have food even though some people would buy those two things before they buy food....diesel?....omg like we don't pay enough taxes on fuel and gas already!!! maybe u should look at the gas pump next time your getting gas or fuel and see how much goes to taxes...bet u would change your mind Leigha
2007-10-02 02:51:31 · answer #9 · answered by Beverly 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Vegetarians don't get ill from what they eat, they get ill from what they don't eat, if they don't know how to get iron and other nutrients from veggie food.
You can't tax someone on something they DONT consume.
Anyway. Then you'd have to tax meat eater for all the clogging of arteries and other problems caused from their poor diet too.
2007-10-02 02:48:14 · answer #10 · answered by jo :) 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You're boring me now. The first couple of questions were mildly amusing, now you're just a means of gaining two points a time.
2007-10-02 03:10:43 · answer #11 · answered by justasiam29 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋