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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (633787)	9/27/2004 11:49:58 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You may be aware of some portion of government spending that is not wasteful. From my experience it is not common. Private health insurers may have a higher overhead per capita, or not. Did you factor in the transfer cost to the providers for the extra bureaucracy that Medicare inflicts up them above the administrative cost of dealing with private insurance? And the cost of Heinz ketchup is probably higher than the home made variety too. We should ban all government agencies from providing Heinz ketchup. It is reasonable to assume that private contractors will have to pay higher wages for mess help than the military. Your blaming it on a specific vendor shows your partisanship. It does not appear that Aramark has contracts in Iraq from the blather coming from Dan Rather and his cronies in the liberal press. It is not relevant to this discussion, either. When you speak of government spending, where does that money come from? It is money given to a chosen party that was taken from half of the voting population. Some of the most successful government projects were transportation projects. The federal government wanted a band of steel across the great land. They gave away one square mile of land for each mile of track laid. It stimulated capitalists to find a way to make it happen. The internet was founded to facilitate the exchange of information between the military, academia and private contractors. It really took off when it was freed from government control. The examples of government efficiency are almost all masking a separate burden that the government is transferring to other parties. (Like the land taken from the public roles that could have been sold in the case of the railroad.) Highly progressive tax is not the answer. You get inequities like the Heinz's showing much higher taxable income with much lower tax payments than President Bush's family. The Kerry's state (Taxachusetts) has much higher marginal rate than Texas. Any tax code in which all citizens do not pay some tax is going to destroy the country very rapidly. The non-taxpaying class wants free money. IT IS GIVING FREE MONEY TO PEOPLE. Interesting that you would use the example of the SEC today. They are proposing regulation on Hedge funds. The President, Federal Reserve, and virtually every other organization opposes it. The SEC used an abbreviated comment period, and timed it to coincide with a period during which many interested parties would be unavailable. It was just exposed in today’s Wall Street Journal. (Yes I openly admit to reading that highly investment oriented tome.) Would you care to try again to find a beneficial, beneficent government entity?