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Group: nashville.general · Group Profile
Author: Brent PBrent P Date: Sep 18, 2008 11:54
On 2008-09-18, Marc Gerges gmail.com> wrote:> Brent P yahoo.com> wrote:>> On 2008-09-18, Marc Gerges gmail.com> wrote:>>> But heavy taxes on fuel have a bunch of disadvantages that make them
>>> intolerable to the US, like free health care etc.
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>> It's not free. It's paid for by people who are threatened with prison
>> (taxpayers) if they don't. the services are then rationed, shortages
>> occur, and it has all the feeling of any government run system with the
>> quality to match. Plus do you really want the sort of criminals that
>> control the US federal government controlling your health?
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> Forgive me, I just had to provoke that reaction, it's always enjoyable
> the way it comes quasi instantly, as a reflex. :)
> Rest assured that reluctant taxpayers face similar trouble independently
> of whether their taxes go toward health care or stealth fighters. As
> towards the service levels of universal health care, they really aren't
> any worse than those of government run wars to ensure oil stays 'cheap'.
Government has no interest in having oil 'cheap'. Government's wars are
always for the interests that control/own the government. Those
interests do not want cheap oil. If they wanted cheap oil they should
have simply lifted all the restrictions on Iraq instead of invading it.
As to which is worse, unltimately both weapons and health care become
tools government uses for the purposes of controling the population.
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