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Originally Posted by Cromwell1900
I don't know where the balance is but fags & Booze cost the NHS a heap of money as well as making it in taxes. But rather than taxing harmful products, i'd love to see a Harmful Products Tax laid on the Manufacturer rather than the consumer. Maybe it could be tied into an estimate of how much money the NHS spends on dealing with them.
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If fags and booze were so damaging: and the cost of healthy care was less than the monies that the treasury reap in taxes: don't you think both would be made illegal?
Why isn't that done instead? simply because more revenue is generated from the taxes paid on such products, than the NHS spend.
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