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Taxing consumption

I am in favour of taxing and legalising drugs completely, if and only if the taxes raised go to fund treatment centres etc. However, here in England the taxes raised from smoking and drinking end up going elsewhere, to the army to pay for the Iraq war for God's sake!! We are taxed the most in the world for these items $15 a bottle of whisky, maybe as much as $20 depending on the exchange rate and $7 for a packet of ciggarettes. All this money is supposed to go to the health service hospitals etc.... but we all know it does not!!

So I am concerned if we just hand over yet more potential sources of taxable revenue for our goverments to then bleed dry to fund their global and domestic disasters.

What ever corner you turn, there is another wall!!

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