Better anywhere else

[Emperor Dalek]

You don't go to buy a pair of jeans here at £x then have to pay whatever on top. Why dont they include it in the price?

Because it's nothing to do with the retailer, that's why. You are advocating the sort of system we have where the hard of thinking have no conception of what taxes they are paying.

[Cowboy Bob]

You don't go to buy a pair of jeans here at £x then have to pay whatever on top. Why dont they include it in the price?

re 7.5 % tax, I really can't belive that, unless it's a fiddle. According to the IRS the rate bands are: 15, 25, 28,33 and 35 plus a fixed amount


If taxable income is over-- But not over-- The tax is:
$0 $7,550 10% of the amount over $0
$7,550 $30,650 $755 plus 15% of the amount over 7,550
$30,650 $74,200 $4,220.00 plus 25% of the amount over 30,650
$74,200 $154,800 $15,107.50 plus 28% of the amount over 74,200
$154,800 $336,550 $37,675.50 plus 33% of the amount over 154,800
$336,550 no limit $97,653.00 plus 35% of the amount over 336,550

That's more like what I was led to believe it was when investigating moving there a few years back.

[Emperor Dalek]

Yes, and when you're discharged, they'll present you with a rather large bill.

Better to be alive and have a large bill than dead and debt free.

[Cowboy Bob]

Better to be alive and have a large bill than dead and debt free.

But what happens if you can't pay the bill?

[AtW]

But what happens if you can't pay the bill?

You wish you were dead...

[Emperor Dalek]

But what happens if you can't pay the bill?

I don't know, Bob, do they re-injure you and put you back at the side of the road to die?

[AtW]

I don't know, Bob, do they re-injure you and put you back at the side of the road to die?

They put you in jail for non-payment where you will have to make new marriage vowls (sp?) to a guy named Rock.

[Cowboy Bob]

I don't know, Bob, do they re-injure you and put you back at the side of the road to die?

You end up in prison for the crime of being kept alive.

[Emperor Dalek]

They put you in jail for non-payment where you will have to make new marriage vowls (sp?) to a guy named Rock.

Vows.

(_o_)

Still, better than being dead.

Mind you, there was that case a couple of weeks ago of the guy who needed a heart bypass op but was told he'd be dead by the time he got to the top of the NHS waiting list so he told them he'd pay privately and gave them a cheque. They operated next day and the cheque bounced a couple of days after that. Now that's good thinking and I'm sure he will come to arrangement through the courts to repay the debt at 50p per week.

[Emperor Dalek]

You end up in prison for the crime of being kept alive.

No, you end up in prison for not repaying a debt. This should teach people to be more careful. Remember, if the accident isn't your fault then the debt falls on the person whose fault it is, not you.