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> smokers are disproportionate in their use of limited resources. Do they? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Finance_Balance_of_Smoking_in_the_Czech_Repu
by alwayslikethis 3y ago
> smokers are disproportionate in their use of limited resources.
Do they?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Finance_Balance_of_Smoking_in_the_Czech_Republic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Finance_Balance_of_Sm...
This seems to suggest by killing the smokers earlier, the government avoids paying expensive pensions, among other things people need later in life.
Obviously I don't support smoking, just nitpicking here.
- threeseed 3y agoIn Australia at least the biggest issue with the health sector is the lack of talented staff e.g. nurses. Smokers despite being a net-positive contributor to the government's tax revenue doesn't change that they are a net-negative drain on society.
- stubish 3y agoThe first claim in the article states that early death and taxation that is the cost saving (and other claims refute that). Taxation is probably the major method of discouraging cigarette usage. So even if you accept the argument that smokers are paying their way through taxes and dying young, they only do so because of onerous government policies.