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Subject: death and taxes
Original Message Date: 12-Nov-02 @ 11:00 AM - death and taxes
We talked about prices and heavy taxes and I said apart from punitive taxation, it's fair enough because of the extra cost of healthcare for smokers. He corrected me. He said that Germany was thinking of bringing in heavy taxation as a way to offset health costs and they performed a study to justify it.
The results were major. They found that most smokers died within 2 years of there first major episode (heart attack/stroke/cancer) whereas non smokers tended to live 10 years and have more /other episodes. Since the most expensive aspect of (general) healthcare is the treatment (normally ongoing) during/following major episodes, non smokers cost the country more than the smokers who tend to shuffle off without longer term/multiple episode treatment being required. The result, Germany did not increase the tax on cigarettes.
So, since insurers will hit you hard if you say "entertainment" as your profession do we think that the gov should rebate/reduce tax for entertainers since they are much more likely to saving the coffers as they bend their bodies toward early graves
Message 11/16 13-Nov-02 @ 11:56 AM - RE: death and taxes
Give me the Aurora Borealis up in Whitehorse any day!
Regards.
Steve.
Message 12/16 13-Nov-02 @ 12:28 PM - RE: death and taxes
Message 13/16 13-Nov-02 @ 06:06 PM - RE: death and taxes
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Message 14/16 13-Nov-02 @ 07:14 PM Edit: 13-Nov-02 | 07:33 PM - RE: death and taxes
Regards.
Steve.
Message 15/16 13-Nov-02 @ 11:23 PM - RE: death and taxes
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