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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (390)1/29/2005 10:50:52 AM
From: fresc  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Actually it was you with the freedom comments.

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A slight increase in the gas tax would do next to nothing to solve health care problems in the US or anywhere else. Something could be done with that money that might help resolve some health care problems but your putting the cart before the horse. You have to decide what you want to do with the money and figure out how you are going to do it, and justify spending the money on it, then you can look for money to do it. There is no point in raising a bunch of money with no plan to spend it, esp. because you have to consider the fact that raising taxes in and of itself reduces freedom and prosperity.

Tim

<Yes.

<Forcing people to pay for other people's medical care reduces freedom. It can be argued that its worth it, that the overall net benefit to society is worth the loss of freedom but the loss should be reconized whether or not it is considered worth it.>

Tim
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