Rod & Betty Jo wrote:
J. Clarke wrote:
And therein lies the problem. The public has somehow gotten the
notion that government-provided services are "free" because there's
no direct charge for them.

Nobody presents it as "are you willing to pay x thousand dollars a
year every year with the price rising with inflation in order to
get
this service?" No, it's always "free this" and "free that".


And how do you know the public has this perception? Ask you
neighbors, most everyone knows that their tax check goes to pay for
any and all public largesse.....

What they don't understand is that more largesse is going to cost them
more taxes. They assume that some program somewhere that they don't
like can be cut to make room for it. But they don't agree on what
program to cut so no programs get cut and taxes go up.

Regrettably you as well understate annual cost increases, once the
Gov. is involved it usually exceeds inflation considerably i.e
medical costs, school tuition/costs, judicial etc....The giant
Gorilla in most Government closets....... Rod

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