"Phil Kangas" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
"RBnDFW" wrote in message
Ed Huntress wrote:
"Gunner Asch" wrote in message

A single example are..."Fees"..which are not considered "taxes"

Fees are not taxes. Look it up.

I don't want any part of the larger debate you guys have going, but this
is a pet peeve. When the government cannot increase taxes, either for
political reasons or because the legislature has forbidden it, then the
solution is to add or increase fees. The net result is extraction of
more and more money from the citizens.

Tell us about the fees that you object to. For the most part, they're
part of the conservative agenda: Make the users pay for their use.

This is one of my pet peeves, too -- a case of malcontents talking out of
both sides of their mouths.

Play semantics all you want, but the net result is more money to support
more government.

Again, tell us about fees. I have data if you need it.

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Ed Huntress

Ok, how about federally mandated monthly payments by every
American citizen to a private for profit insurance company
cradle to grave or else get fined by the government if you
object. Call it what you want.....
phil kangas

As I said, if the complaint is that "taxes" are being mislabelled as "fees,"
they amount to 0.5% of federal revenue in total.

As for the medical insurance you're talking about, we should have followed
the Swiss pattern: Make health insurance companies not-for-profit, and turn
the entire incentive structure around to our advantage.

That was a sop to conservatives. They demanded it, just like their giveaway
to big pharma in Medicare Part D.

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Ed Huntress