Great societies improve health and wellbeing through health and medical research. Public funds should provide most of the funding raised through universal, fair and progressive taxation. This shares the load according to capacity to pay. The idea of taxing people who go to the GP, and then holding them to ransom by saying the GP tax will be used to fund medical research is unethical. Our society is diminished when an unfair burden falls on patients to fund research. Sign the petition to tell Treasurer Hockey we need to fund health and medical research with a universal, progressive and FAIR tax - NOT with a GP tax #nogptax https://change.org/en-AU/petitions/hon-joe-hockey-fund-health-and-medical-research-with-a-universal-progressive-and-fair-tax-not-with-a-gp-tax
Posted on: Thu, 22 May 2014 02:16:23 +0000