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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
nope , everyone in the hospital is doing volunteer work  of course it costs, everything costs  in the uk you pay for it in taxes, very similar to how canada does it, in the usa they charge you a "pay as you need it" rate, so if you aren't ever sick you dont need to waste thousands of dollars paying for other people that are kinda |
Exactly. $0.48 of every dollar I earned in 2007 went to various levels of government in the form of federal / provincial income tax, GST, gas tax, property tax, vehicle taxes, parking tickets, liquor tax, PST, etc, etc, etc, etc....