By: FMC

FMC — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:53:54 +0000

This study should be front page material. However, it left out one important area: Utilities. I paid our gas bill yesterday. Over half of the bill was for “taxes” or bogus charges of some kind (“transportation” charges, “energy” charges, etc.). The same is true of our electric bill.
We are told to “protest” these charges with the companies involved, but we all know how that goes.
How does one effectively challenge these outrageous charges?

By: CRAIG

CRAIG — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:14:59 +0000

I saw David Axlerod, Obama’s chief advisor, talking sunday on Meet the Press. He pointed out the need for health care reform by the 100% increase in premiums over the past 10 years. My first thought was how does that compare with the 100% increase in property taxes over the same period. Or the 100% increase in State, County, School Board,and City budgets. Or the 300% increase in the Fed. deficit this year. Yes my Blue Cross Blue Shield went up 100% but I didn’t worry one little bit when I went in for surgery. It cost me less than $1000 to have a new baby boy with a private birthing suite.
I just lost my father in law Saturday, to cancer,he was insured by Medicare. His medicare ran out after 3 months then his personal funds paid for 2 months, and then they switched him to Medicaid. Medicaid took everything he had worked his whole life for (he was 80) including his house and all his belongings, to care for him for 3 months.
That gives me real confidence in how my taxes are going to take care of me,and real confidence in the new government entitlement program called Health care Reform. With the $180,000 in taxes I paid last year I sure could have bought
a lot more security than what my father in law got.
I have an idea let’s let BC/BS run the government I’ll bet by the second year we’ll get a rebate check.

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