Well its a sign of a government that has passed its sell by date that this is the best it can come up with.
We all know that smoking is bad, has been banned from every place and yet now they plan a new way to get people to give up. Never mind that they tax it to the hilt, even their own figures show that the levels of tax encourage people to smuggle/buy tobacco from smugglers.
Among his suggestions are a proposal for a smoking permit, which smokers would have to produce when buying cigarettes
The idea, dubbed "libertarian paternalism", reverses the traditional government approach that requires individuals to opt in to healthy schemes.What the fucking hell is libertarian about forcing people to buy licenses to buy and consume perfectly legal products?
You just know that most of the people who smoke will ignore this, be quite happy to buy their smokes off a chap down the local and avoid paying the extra tax.
New Labour = extra taxes and more paperwork.
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I am getting very sick of this government, full stop. Sick of being told what to do at what should be a personal level. Sick of the hoards of do-gooders sitting around and being paid from our ridiculously high tax payments to restrict our lives further and think up ideas on how to tax us more. Stop paying these useless people and maybe we wouldn't need these extra taxes.
Well said Darren, agree with ya on that.
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