Bingowings said:
If you are a NHS user or use a similar scheme you may well have sympathy with this petition.
If you don't agree with your country having socialised medicine you may still agree with the principle that if someone has already paid for something via taxation they shouldn't be charged for it again.
Also if the model is going to held up as example it should stand on it's own feet without added surcharges.
The socialist-totalitarian mentality would be HYSTERICALLY funny if it wasn't for...
If the new revenue is for the purpose of closing a budget deficit, it cannot be said that anybody has already paid for it.
The great thing about minimal government involvement is minimal concern about what the government is doing.
When you walk into a grocery store for a carton of milk, does the cashier say "You have twice as much in your wallet as Bob, so you have to pay twice the amount."? Food is far more immediately necessary to society than health care.
If you can find a petition that divides the NHS budget per capita and then requires that a third goes to catastrophic insurance and two thirds into an individual health savings account, you'll have this Yank's sig.