[Livia]

Originally Posted by kizzy

Im not insinuating anything. whatever they lose on fags they can stick on something else can't they?
How about instead of scrapping the 50p tax rate for those earning above £150,000 they raise it?...
Or scrap large organisations based in th UK using offshore accounts to avoid tax?

You should maybe read your post again and see if you can think why I would think you were insinuating something. The clue, you see, was in the words.

Yeah, they could raise the top rate of tax and make it impossible for rich people and banks to operate in the UK. Then they can all move to another country, taking their business with them. There'd be no one left to invest in anything or employ anyone... and we can all come and work for the local authority.

Or... they could make overweight people pay for their own obesity-related illnesses through taxing their food, the same way that they've taxed the smoker almost out of existance.