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Should healthy people be taxed?

  • 01-07-2019 12:47pm
    #1
    B_ecke_r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭


    they don't contribute to society by paying sugar tax, heart disease medicine, they walk instead of using public transport. they need to pay their way!!


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  • #2
    RHJ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 925 ✭✭✭RHJ


    What is it with stupid threads? For ****'s sake, do something more productive with your time.


  • #3
    RMAOK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,237 ✭✭✭✭RMAOK


    Maybe a thread title should be "who shouldn't be taxed?"....


  • #4
    B_ecke_r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭B_ecke_r


    RHJ wrote: »
    What is it with stupid threads? For ****'s sake, do something more productive with your time.


    like what? go for a run? and be like one of those healthy free loaders.... not a chance


  • #5
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    This needs a tax megathread.


  • #6
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Should hairy people be waxed?


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  • #7
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,073 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Tax the overweight, tax the healthy ... those are two extremes, and as usual the answer lies somewhere in between.

    Tax the healthy? That's Communism. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." There are sound economic reasons why that dog don't hunt. I don't think I need to go in to detail there.

    Tax the overweight? Why not take it even further? Keep tax out of it altogether, and privatise all healthcare. Hospitals will be free to charge what they want, for whatever reason. So if you're perfectly healthy, and never need medical help, you'll never be charged anything. People with health problems - regardless of whether it's their "fault" or not - will be charged the full cost.

    Of course, insurers would then jump in to that market, since there is money to be made. Healthcare insurers already exclude pre-existing conditions, so if you were born with a heart defect, they won't help ypu with anything related to that.

    In economics there is something called a Pigovian Tax: a tax explicity designed to change behaviour. The massive tax on cigarettes in Ireland is an example of this. How well is that working, do we know? Is it getting people to stop smoking? Now try and imagine how well a Pigovian Tax will work on something much more complex, such as being overweight, when empty calories are the cheapest foods in the stores?

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #8
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    KungPao wrote: »
    Should hairy people be waxed?

    Too right. Could use the hair for making natural clothes products instead of all the artificial materials that are bad for the earth.


  • #9
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,313 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    No


  • #10
    TuringBot47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    English people should be taxed for Brexit.


  • #11
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Mod

    How about we tax the op for making this ridiculous thread?

    Thread closed.


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