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The Media Shills for User Fees
Larry Dighera wrote:
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:07:05 GMT, ktbr wrote in : What has gone ballistic is [sic] entitlements. Are you able to provide any examples? I don't know if ktbr can but I'll be happy to. Look at the graph next to the third paragraph. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...021301091.html |
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"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in message ... Larry Dighera wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:07:05 GMT, ktbr wrote in : What has gone ballistic is [sic] entitlements. Are you able to provide any examples? I don't know if ktbr can but I'll be happy to. Look at the graph next to the third paragraph. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...021301091.html Is there an echo in here? |
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Matt Barrow wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2007/02/13/AR2007021301091.html Is there an echo in here? Great minds and all that... |
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What has gone ballistic is [sic] entitlements.
Are you able to provide any examples? I don't know if ktbr can but I'll be happy to. Look at the graph next to the third paragraph. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...021301091.html Is there an echo in here? "Beef and pork". That is, the part of the graph that is growing is the one labled "Social Security and other payments to individuals". This lumps together a number of disparate items which are then inappropriately labeled "entitlements". Social security is something that one pays into, and one receives benefits based on what one has paid in (and when). It is a form of insurance, albeit one that has been administered by the government. One may just as well throw tax refunds into the "payments to individuals" pot too! This is different from welfare, which is simply given. Without a breakdown as to how much each program contributes to this big category, it is unfair to say that "entitlements have gone ballistic" based on this graph. The article shows a Social security as the dominant form of "payments to individuals" Medicare and medicaid =combined= equal this, and the category "payments to the poor" is about one sixth of the total. I don't defend the present situation, but one must be careful in the analysis. Jose -- Get high on gasoline: fly an airplane. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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Jose wrote: Social security is something that one pays into, and one receives benefits based on what one has paid in (and when). If only it was. .. -- Bob Noel (goodness, please trim replies!!!) |
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:59:03 -0700, C J Campbell
wrote: http://preview.tinyurl.com/35souz http://preview.tinyurl.com/34p9ap Huh. No mention of av-gas taxes in either of these articles, nor any comment on what money-losers other transportation facilities like roads are. Am familiar with a local corporate flight department. They operated 2 mid-size bizjets what the NBAA considers to be the "average" number of flight hours last year. They paid around $65,000 in FET on fuel last year. For the airlines, burning the same number of gallons would be around $12,000 in FET. The really neat factoid is that over half of the $66K was "spent" at the local FBO, which chooses NOT to file as an "aviation end user" or whatever they call it. The way I understand the law (as of October 2005 ?) means that $30K or so in FET went into the federal highway fund. TC |
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:45:13 -0500, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in : Larry Dighera wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:07:05 GMT, ktbr wrote in : What has gone ballistic is [sic] entitlements. Are you able to provide any examples? I don't know if ktbr can but I'll be happy to. Look at the graph next to the third paragraph. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...021301091.html I hope you're not suggesting that Social Security payments should be slashed to provide more money for the military. |
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Larry Dighera wrote: I hope you're not suggesting that Social Security payments should be slashed to provide more money for the military. I hope you're not suggesting that as the only means of funding the military. -- Bob Noel (goodness, please trim replies!!!) |
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Larry Dighera wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:45:13 -0500, "Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in : Larry Dighera wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:07:05 GMT, ktbr wrote in : What has gone ballistic is [sic] entitlements. Are you able to provide any examples? I don't know if ktbr can but I'll be happy to. Look at the graph next to the third paragraph. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2007/02/13/AR2007021301091.html I hope you're not suggesting that Social Security payments should be slashed to provide more money for the military. I didn't suggest anything of the sort. Though, I wouldn't mind having my share of the $199billion that the poor think they are entitled to back in my bank account. |
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:38:53 -0400, Bob Noel
wrote in : I hope you're not suggesting that as the only means of funding the military. You didn't view the chart. |
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