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"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message ink.net... Actually, our fiscal situation is even worse. If we put a $4 tax on gasoline, we could balance the budget but it wouldn't make social security viable. The US has become totally addicted to spending tomorrow's money today. Close; the addiction is to spending OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY!! |
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message ink.net... Actually, our fiscal situation is even worse. If we put a $4 tax on gasoline, we could balance the budget but it wouldn't make social security viable. The US has become totally addicted to spending tomorrow's money today. Close; the addiction is to spending OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY!! True. Seems to be inevitable in a democracy. Mike MU-2 |
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"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message ink.net... "Matt Barrow" wrote in message ... "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message ink.net... Actually, our fiscal situation is even worse. If we put a $4 tax on gasoline, we could balance the budget but it wouldn't make social security viable. The US has become totally addicted to spending tomorrow's money today. Close; the addiction is to spending OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY!! True. Seems to be inevitable in a democracy. In non-democracies, too! More like it's human nature. |
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"Mike Rapoport" writes:
"Matt Barrow" wrote in message Close; the addiction is to spending OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY!! True. Seems to be inevitable in a democracy. Luckily, that problem never plagues dictatorships. Since everything in the country belongs to its dictator, he's only ever spending his own money :=) Ari. -- Elections only count as free and trials as fair if you can lose money betting on the outcome. |
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If my government taxed gasoline so that it cost $7.50 per gallon, I would
be standing on my representatives desk right now. And so would millions of Americans. For some odd reason, the French just go "Se la vie" and shrug their shoulders. Don't worry it will be up there pretty soon, the price of avgas has doubled in the last 4 years, say double up again in another 4 and there you have it. AliR. |
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Makes you wonder how people so dunder-headed ever spawned men like
Bleriot... That's not racist? One of us is missing something. Might want to look up "racist" in the dictionary BEFORE accusing me of racism, Tony. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Offensive? Sure. Surprising? Not in the least.
You're "offended" by my broadsiding the French? -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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If my government taxed gasoline so that it cost $7.50 per gallon, I would
be standing on my representatives desk right now. And so would millions of Americans. No they won't! Day after tomorrow is tax day and no one is even flinching. I think you're wrong, Matt. The Federal tax code has been carefully -- even diabolically -- written so that the average Joe on the street has NO idea what he's actually paying in taxes. By forcing employers to withhold the tax BEFORE the employee ever sees the money, the Gubmint not only guarantees payment, it guarantees acquiescence. Bottom line: The government keeps the tax laws inscrutably complex quite on purpose, lest they provoke an uprising. Gas prices, on the other hand, are plain as day transparent, and people are already ****ed as hell. The Bush administration is crapping their pants right now, watching GW's approval rating plummet, primarily because of rising gas prices. If it hit $7.50 a gallon, you would see a revolution in America. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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But I like to be brought to the ER after an accident ASAP and beeing
searched for an insurance card _after_ the emergency treatment. Martin, I don't know what kind of propaganda they've been feeding you in Austria, but in America no one cares about who's paying for the bills here until after the emergency medical services are rendered. And, in fact, we *do* have nationalized health care in this country for the indigent. Those who deny this fact clearly have no concept of how our medical system works. (Mary's "other" job is doing statistical computer analysis for a major health care provider, and she spent 20 years as a Medical Technologist "in the trenches" drawing blood, etc. She analyzes budgets, and gets to see, first hand, how Medicare and other government programs pay 100% of health care costs for anyone who walks in the door without insurance..) Could the system be set up in a more efficient way? Hell, yes. But it *is* functioning, and our health care *is* quite excellent. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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For some odd reason, the French just go "Se la vie" and shrug
their shoulders. come on ... it is "C'est la vie" My French ancestors are spinning in their graves, I'm sure... ;-) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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