Biotech Values

[vinmantoo]

tinker,
<And in fact, it is much worse, you are taxed for living and breathing as no matter if you work or not, the only criteria for paying is that you are breathing.

How many here are in favor of a living and breathing body tax?

That argument is not going to make it anywhere. >



It is truly absurd to call it a living and breathing tax.

Do you think that everyone should have to pay taxes for public schools even though they might not use them?

Do you think that everyone should pay for a fire department, even though they might not use them?

Do you have to pay social security taxes and medicare taxes as in FICA even though you might not ever use them?

Do employers have to pay unemployment insurance taxes even though you may not ever need it?


It will be a healthcare program and they should call it a tax and administer a program. I guess it boils down to whether you think citizens of a country should have basic healthcare as part of the benefits of their citizenship, or whether you think it is everyman, woman and child for themselves.