RB TexLa
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Sat Jul-28-07 01:13 AM
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If we tax gasoline to pay for roads, hunters to pay for wildlife programs |
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why wouldn't we tax diapers and formula to pay for child health insurance programs?
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Horse with no Name
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Sat Jul-28-07 01:15 AM
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1. Perhaps because driving and hunting are optional activities |
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While eating and shitting are not?
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RB TexLa
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Sat Jul-28-07 01:16 AM
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2. Having children are not optional activities? |
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Sat Jul-28-07 01:18 AM
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But sadly enough there are some who do not take responsibility when it comes to this.
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Sat Jul-28-07 01:20 AM
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4. That's not the analogy you presented. n/t |
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Sat Jul-28-07 02:09 AM
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5. Roads and game animals are part of the common wealth. They are publically owned. |
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Gas taxes and hunting license fees don't begin to cover the cost of road building, traffic enforcement, or Fish and Wildlife Depts. and the public lands administration that most hunting is done on. Hunting licenses are also used as a resouce allocation management tool. The rest is paid out of everyones taxes, even those who don't drive or don't hunt.
If it makes you feel better most states with sales taxes (all but 2 or 3)charge sales tax on diapers and formula.
Do you have another brilliant question you would like answered? Free of charge and no taxes!
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Sat Jul-28-07 08:20 AM
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most states will charge tax on diapers but not on formula. formula being a food, isnt subject to sales taxes.
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Sat Jul-28-07 02:12 PM
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20. Depends (get it?) on the State. I know some exempt food items, but I know some don't. |
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When my kids were that young, we used cloth diapers and they were breast fed.
Plus the state I live in is one of the few progressive enough to not have a sales tax. I think the three are OR MT and VT Am I missing any?
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Sat Jul-28-07 02:10 AM
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6. David Vitter has that legislation on anonymous hold |
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Sat Jul-28-07 11:59 AM
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16. I thought of the same thing.. |
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Sat Jul-28-07 04:31 AM
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7. Because smoking is evil and children aren't |
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Geez, didn't you get the memo?
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Sat Jul-28-07 04:39 AM
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8. So poor people with babies can pay even MORE? |
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For services they will never get because they don't have the $$$ for the co-pay?
And the more taxes they pay, the LESS they have for co-pays, for medicine, etc..
Could you please think this through?
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Sat Jul-28-07 05:29 AM
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9. Because health is an issue no one among us can avoid. |
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Mass transit at least gives us the option of getting off of gasoline. There are people in west European cities who have never known ownership of a vehicle in their lives because of mass transit.
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Sat Jul-28-07 08:19 AM
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10. We get it. You hate children. You hate people who have children. |
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Your parents made a big mistake by having children.
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RB TexLa
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Sun Jul-29-07 11:45 AM
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Sat Jul-28-07 08:26 AM
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12. How about we tax the war profiteers for the cost of the Iraq war? |
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That would make more sense.
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Sat Jul-28-07 08:45 AM
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13. Because it makes too much sense. |
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Sat Jul-28-07 11:58 AM
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14. Yet, you don't answer the question..... |
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You WANT poor people to pay MORE for baby supplies that they need, so.....
So, what?
So you can blame them because they don't have enough money to then buy all the necessities?
What is your angle?
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Sun Jul-29-07 04:52 PM
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22. Actually, since more poor people consume tobacco, |
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raising those taxes would harm the poor more than raising taxes on baby stuff.
Besides that, people with children (rich, poor and middle) get a tax deduction for them; as a result, the rest of us are already subsidizing their procreation efforts.
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Sat Jul-28-07 11:59 AM
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15. My daughter has it bad enough as it is and you want to add more to it? |
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Sat Jul-28-07 12:04 PM
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17. I'm a parent of two young ones. I don't see a reason why families |
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should get an extra deduction for having kids. The other side of that is that I don't see a reason to raise taxes on anyone in the middle class as long as the wealthy still get their breaks.
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Sat Jul-28-07 12:09 PM
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18. you cannot equate wildlife programs and road repairs to child health. |
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Human health, especially that of children should be an issue of top priority, and not one that should be bargained with.
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Sat Jul-28-07 12:11 PM
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19. Because you shouldn't tax food |
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Diapers are charged a sales tax (at least here they are), but formula's food, so it's not.
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