Bush's user fees will tax us more than rolling back his cuts for the rich

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Budget Plan Has $3.5B in New User Fees

By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press Writer
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060211/APW/602110700

The spending proposal for the budget year that begins Oct. 1 contains $3.5 billion in new user fees. Typically branded as new taxes by those who have to pay them, these fees are intended to hold down the public's cost for programs such as airline screening, medical care for veterans and military retirees, food inspection and oversight of commodities markets.

The fees increase to $47.2 billion over five years.

Current fees on passports, national park admissions, patients, stock transactions, federal court filings and agricultural inspections and other services are expected to raise $209 billion next year.

A similar fate should befall a thrice-rejected plan to boost prescription drug co-payments for higher-income veterans without military disabilities and have those veterans pay a new enrollment fee.

Besides generating $544 million from the fees, the proposal would save $251 million from veterans who left the system rather than pay the fees.

Bush also wants to save $249 million from the military health care costs of early retirees covered by the Pentagon's Tricare health plan by increasing enrollment fees and deductibles.

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Bush in New Hampshire Feb.8:

"If Congress doesn't act, your taxes are going to go up -- and you're not going to like it -- and it's going to hurt the economy. And so Congress needs to make the tax relief we passed permanent. (Applause.)

You will hear the argument during the budget debates -- you know -- all the noise coming out of Washington, that you need to raise taxes in order to balance the budget. I've been there long enough to tell you, that's not the way Washington works. They're going to raise your taxes and they're going to find new ways to spend your money.

Liar.

[Kansas Wyatt]

1. So George W. Bush raises taxes by calling taxes another word, fees.

Meanwhile, State & Local taxes have had to be increased due to him cutting off funding to the State and local governments from the Federal Government.

Now, on top of his "tax cut" shell game that he has tricked Americans with, Bush is transforming the word fee to mean TAX.

So what it all boils down to is that George W. Bush has massively raised taxes on the State and local levels for the majority of Americans, and in addition to not cutting federal taxes on the majority of Americans by any significance, Bush is now raising federal taxes on the majority of Americans by referring to taxes as fees.

Hey freeps, how's that stupid racket of an alleged rebate doing you now, and why do you feel you deserve any credibility?

[burrowowl]

2. He also wants to sell off

National Park lands to finance rural education instead of using other means like taxing the rich and stopping a hughly expensive war.

[Robb]

3. Death by a thousand cuts

You might not notice until you've bled out.