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

Re: Yet Another Telco Tax proposed

Tony P. (kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net)
Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:02:52 -0400

In article <telecom23.520.12@telecom-digest.org>, spamtrap100@
comcast.net says:

> 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.

Close to 75% of local taxes here go to the schools.

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