[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 03/28/2001 4:48:40 PM Central Standard Time,You're being a bit unfair about tax. Personally, I'm strongly in favour of a good quality public services funded through progressive taxation. It's one of the benchmarks of civilisation, a key tool for redistribution of wealth and a protection against the unrestricted anarchy of the market. Most people in the UK are in favour of tax funded public services, because on the whole they ensure good quality care for those who need it, in a fair and equitable way.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That sounds very restrictive. What about adaptations, though? Who pays forWe don't have any unified system in the US for paying for those. There is a
stair lifts, ramps, level access showers for wheelchair users and so on?
group called Independent Living that sometimes pays for some of those here in
Mississippi, but the last I heard they were very backed up and did not have a
carpenter. So it is just a patchwork of self pay, small grants, private
charity, some special government funded projects. My father in law is
retired and he makes WC ramps for people from his church who need them. The
WC user and or the church pay for the materials. This may seem like an
inferior way of doing things to our UK readers, but I personally am in favor
of limited government. Remember the government has no money except what it
collects from the taxpayers. -- Jody
Punitive taxation is also very useful -- there is a new climate change levy soon to be introduced here, to help make polluters pay for the damage they inflict on the rest of us (and don't get me started on the Kyoto protocol). Taxes on smoking are sky high here, and rightly so. Remember -- profit only exists because workers are paid less than the value of their produce.
Er... we're getting a bit off-topic, aren't we?
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities
in our air and water that are doing it."
Governor George W. Bush, Jr.
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