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Originally Posted by DaveinGermany
A truer word ..... I seem to recall, many years ago when I was in UK they put the price of ciggies up "to cover the cost of smokers to the NHS" which incidentally didn't get said revenue & as a result there was a marked decrease in income from Tobacco tax. As people were buying abroad so the money the Government could've had, had they not been so greedy was then filling the coffers of Countries like France & Spain, once again reaffirming the conceit & at the same time stupidity of Politicians.
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People do the oddest things, if CDs had been a fiver instead over £15 when they came out they could have avoided all the illegal downloads and made more money the dozy and it's the same with taxes, only the people on PAYE pay the full amount due, anyway I thought the Government was moaning because we live to long