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# Personally, I prefer my money to be spent on things like health and social care, policing etc. rather than inflating the next bubble and funding personal debt.
Maybe I'm weird.
(, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 17:22, archived)
# You could borrow a million pounds and donate it to a hospital.
(, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 17:25, archived)
# A health service funded by donations funded by banks funded by the tax payer?
I think I see an easier way.
(, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 17:28, archived)
# Yes, the government could just not take anybody's money away in the first place
but nobody much seems to like that idea, because we all have plans for what should be done with everybody else's money.
(, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 17:33, archived)
# If they don't take our money, private healthcare, security, insurance, waste management and transport companies will.
I'm happier giving my money to someone that's accountable to me and other voters, rather than to shareholders.
(, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 17:35, archived)
# Private companies don't take our money.
We give it willingly, or else we keep it.
(, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 17:38, archived)
# Well yes.
With healthcare, you can either give money to them willingly, or die.
(, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 17:42, archived)
# This is also true of food shops.
Currently not owned by the nation and funded by tax, but we look to the day.
(, Tue 20 Oct 2009, 17:48, archived)