The UK 2010 Election Thread- Who will/would get your vote?

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FootballFan said:

SciFiBoy said:

FootballFan said:
The NHS is excellent. but, under stupid government imposed rules it is now a laughing stock in some regions.

For example, in my region a friend of mine needed a drug to restore some sort of deficiency he has. However, in my regional zone the NHS has decided this drug is too expensive to provide him with. Consequently, forcing him to go private.

Heres the catch. If he lived in Lincolnshire or Lancashire he would have been given this drug on the NHS because they elected to include it in their funding. Talk about a ridiculous scheme!

ideally the government should increase NHS funding and also redirect funds from things like the riddiculous over payment of managers (many of which may not even be needed anyway)

If I was in charge I would hit the millionaire bankers a lot harder with taxes. In addition, transfer the pay increases from the higest earning managers in the NHS to the lowest paid nurses. The NHS needs much much more funding but I don't quite know where the source of that could come from.....

Ideally the government would legalise many drugs. Charging obscence prices and profiting massivly from taxation. Only the rich would be able to consume these goods and the NHS would be placed under less strain as they wouldn't be as popular as they are know! 

This is where we need to be careful. It's very easy to say "Oh, tax the rich people, they're all spoiled and they don't need it"

But what about the rich people who have worked their arses off to become rich? People who started with nothing, and slogged to get to where they are now? Does the government really have the right to take away half of their money, and give part of it to people who are completely unwilling to work, and thus are poor? Yes, some people work hard and are poor. And yes, they should get help. But if you're not going to work, you don't deserve a penny from the government, which in turn would come from the people who work for a living.

I'm not criticising the NHS or anything, nor am I criticising progressive taxation. I just think that we need a healthy dose of capitalism, like Thatcher gave us in the 1980s. David Cameron won't give us that, but it would be a step.