I can never work out why that is "fair"

True! You should pay for what you use! An opt out option from NHS healthcare for example

During the last few years having paid my council tax, I've never used a library, called out the fire brigade, and never needed the police (though it can be said they cover my safety on a Friday night out). Does this mean I can pick and choose what my tax pays for?

During the last few years having paid my council tax, I've never used a library, called out the fire brigade, and never needed the police (though it can be said they cover my safety on a Friday night out). Does this mean I can pick and choose what my tax pays for?

 

I've helped educate the little fuckers in school which you could say I benefit from though I'm barren

 

I also cant imagine I'd get much in the line of benefit were I to lose my job. I cant be arsed being a revolutionary though.

During the last few years having paid my council tax, I've never used a library, called out the fire brigade, and never needed the police (though it can be said they cover my safety on a Friday night out). Does this mean I can pick and choose what my tax pays for?

 

No, because no fucker would pay and they'd still expect councils to provide services for free.

I know that

 

I was just responding to the idea that you can opt in and out of what taxes are paid for, and what a daft idea it is because then we'd all choose the bits we like/don't like

Edited December 9, 201312 yr by DirtySanchez

I know that

 

I was just responding to the idea that you can opt in and out of what taxes are paid for, and what a daft idea it is because then we'd all choose the bits we like/don't like

 

 

Bagsy doing my own bins

I know that

 

I was just responding to the idea that you can opt in and out of what taxes are paid for, and what a daft idea it is because then we'd all choose the bits we like/don't like

 

I was thinking more along the lines of paying for NHS (biggest burden) when I don't use it due to having private cover. If I need to use it for any reason I pay for the services I use.

I was thinking more along the lines of paying for NHS (biggest burden) when I don't use it due to having private cover. If I need to use it for any reason I pay for the services I use.

 

But your Bupa doesnt cover A&E.

I was thinking more along the lines of paying for NHS (biggest burden) when I don't use it due to having private cover. If I need to use it for any reason I pay for the services I use.

 

As the Americans are now discovering, you can only have universal free coverage if you force some people to pay for far more than they need. In our case tax, in theirs, making men buy neo-natal cover.

I was thinking more along the lines of paying for NHS (biggest burden) when I don't use it due to having private cover. If I need to use it for any reason I pay for the services I use.

 

I hope you don't ever need an NHS hospital. Having private healthcare doesn't mean you won't & trust me, if you have to pay, you'll soon be out of pocket.

Bagsy doing my own bins

Stuff that now they've closed blackrod tip it's a 16 mile round trip to the new one. My bin weighs a ton every fortnight cramming stuff in I'd used to take to the tip myself.

 

Chorley tip is a lot closer to me but I don't pay for that.

Stuff that now they've closed blackrod tip it's a 16 mile round trip to the new one. My bin weighs a ton every fortnight cramming stuff in I'd used to take to the tip myself.

 

Chorley tip is a lot closer to me but I don't pay for that.

 

 

Use my mum's postcode     Or I'll give you knock when I'm going down Newbrook Road. For a small fee........

 

 

P.S. What the fuck do you put in your bin then?

Bagsy doing my own bins

I knew all that experience as an office cleaner would come in handy one day

I was thinking more along the lines of paying for NHS (biggest burden) when I don't use it due to having private cover. If I need to use it for any reason I pay for the services I use.

What amount would you deduct from your tax/ni payments to cover it? And when would you tell the govt when you might cancel your private payments in favour of the NHS when you need a&e?

And don't forget, it would require a very good govt/NHS/computer system that would inevitably fail

Add to that if anything fucks up in your private operation you'll be getting rushed to the local NHS hospital, if you've got kids, besides for a planned operation like a tonsillectomy then your private health policy is useless as well

I was thinking more along the lines of paying for NHS (biggest burden) when I don't use it due to having private cover. If I need to use it for any reason I pay for the services I use.

This kind of attitude will change dramatically when you have kids mate.

 

(Or adopt after your civil ceremony)

I'm thinking Oliver hasn't spent a lot of time thinking this one through.

I'm thinking Oliver hasn't spent a lot of time thinking

You used a few too many words, I've fixed it for you. HTH

I'm thinking Oliver hasn't spent a lot of time thinking this one through.

I'm thinking he's obviously never had much use out of A&E either.

Dread to think what Mrs Dee's treatment would have cost the last few months.

 

Edit: Nb, anything and everything these days, wardrobes, bushes, bicycles that sort of thing.

Edited December 9, 201312 yr by Andydee

I'm happy to pay more tax to be honest if it means that everyone in the country has to some extent got a decent chance of fighting whatever illness they've got, whether they're 8 minutes or 88 years old, homeless or head of a bank. The idea of people being left to die because they can't afford mediation is pretty horrific. I think universal health care for all its faults is something the country should be proud of. It worries me that I think it's on the way out.. rant over

I've not totalled it up but given the amount of injuries I built up over the years, ranging from stitches to a broken neck in a car crash on the m1, when ambulances turned up no questions asked, did what they did, got me to hospital and treated me afterwards. At no point did they ask for insurance details or my credit card details.

 

I'd prefer we lived that way

Double post

Edited December 9, 201312 yr by DirtySanchez

Spot on that Ghana.

 

I've well had my money's worth.

 

4 operations on my duffed ankle,1 child birth and I basically lived in A&E at a weekend during my late teens. Haha

Anybody used Christie's?  My friends & family have and that's a dear do if you're paying by the hour.  Posh folk use that place too, don't you know?

 

The NHS is in many areas badly run, but fuck me, I'd not want to be without it.

 

And yes, we have private medical care aswell.

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The NHS is in many areas badly run, but fuck me, I'd not want to be without it.

 

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That's exactly where I'm at.