Austrian bank employee drops 120k into river. - Page 2

Stealhead · 06-12-13, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Spiced_Rum

At least cigarettes are taxed at a high rate so that the government can claim back some benefit money from the professional non-working class, who statistically are more likely to smoke and drink than other sections of working society.

Lets see those stats that prove your claim here are some that disprove you.As you can see their rates are not drastically higher when it comes to smoking.

http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/13/2/115.full

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...8243/table/t1/

Spiced_Rum · 06-12-13, 05:41 PM

http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/14/6/389.full

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1776044

http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/con.../1/21.full.pdf

"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" - Mark Twain

Indirect taxation can be a good thing; when the unemployed are not paying the tax man and also receiving benefits which outweigh the income of a working person on low wage. Therefore, the tax on tobacco helps offset the cost of benefits on the working tax payer. A simplistic view, and was supposed to be tongue in cheek. Bankers still suck.

06-12-13, 05:41 PM	#17
Spiced_Rum Ace of the Deep Join Date: May 2013 Location: Enjoying a run ashore Posts: 1,129 Downloads: 69 Uploads: 0	http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/14/6/389.full http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1776044 http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/con.../1/21.full.pdf "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" - Mark Twain Indirect taxation can be a good thing; when the unemployed are not paying the tax man and also receiving benefits which outweigh the income of a working person on low wage. Therefore, the tax on tobacco helps offset the cost of benefits on the working tax payer. A simplistic view, and was supposed to be tongue in cheek. Bankers still suck. __________________ Spiced_Rum "The only rocks I want to see are in my glass, and covered with lashings of Spicey and Coke"