On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:20:36 GMT, in rec.photo.digital ,
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`The taxes should not just be enacted. If you "Just" enact tjem, where
does the extra money go? Into a general fund? What fun -- we simply
include gasoline with alcohol and tobacco as sin taxes?

It's particularly annoying to hear people say, "The Europeans
pay 4, 6 or 8 dollars a gallon. We should just follow their lead." But
what do they get for it? When you can guarantee all citizens
womb-to-tomb medical care, it might be worth it. But just to **** it
down the general fund rathole is insanity.

Let it go to a fund to build up the military to balance the security
risk of being dependent on foreign oil. Or pay for research to reduce
that dependency.

And, yes, government research pays off.


--
Matt Silberstein

All in all, if I could be any animal, I would want to be
a duck or a goose. They can fly, walk, and swim. Plus,
there there is a certain satisfaction knowing that at the
end of your life you will taste good with an orange sauce
or, in the case of a goose, a chestnut stuffing.