TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Yet Another Telco Tax proposed

Re: Yet Another Telco Tax proposed

Clark W. Griswold, Jr. (spamtrap100@comcast.net)
Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:25:43 -0600

hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com (Lisa Hancock) wrote:

> 1) One is the ever increasing demand for government services. All
> of us are guilty of that even though we all blame someone else.

At the federal level and at most local levels, the "ever increasing
demand" is primarily social transfer taxes, not roads or other classic
government responsibilities.

The single largest component of my local tax bill is the county
hospital. Don't tell me we do not have government mandated universal
healthcare in the US. I pay thousands every year to cover the
uninsured.

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