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Kids and politics
Inv3rted:
--- Quote from: Rughugger on October 05, 2009, 12:44:51 AM ---Oh without a doubt! I learned first-hand that the reason medications are so expensive is mainly due to research and production costs. By the time a pill is released out on the market, the companies are already millions if not close to a billion in debt. They have to make it up somehow. And guess who foots the bill? You guessed it, the Taxpaying citizens. I can't remember real well but I believe this country was funded to prevent a government from taxation without representation. That Cash for Clunkers program seemed like an unneeded taxation to me.
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Insurance companies are manipulative, and nothing justifies that. Trickle down economic ideals leading to subsidies are a conservative idea, and they are horribly flawed.
Cash for Clunkers is taxation how exactly? You get rid of your car and get paid for it.
Netwars4:
--- Quote from: pixl on October 05, 2009, 01:02:55 AM ---1/0 land
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Aw..
Rughugger:
--- Quote from: Inv3rted on October 05, 2009, 01:15:23 AM ---Insurance companies are manipulative, and nothing justifies that. Trickle down economic ideals leading to subsidies are a conservative idea, and they are horribly flawed.
Cash for Clunkers is taxation how exactly? You get rid of your car and get paid for it.
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Because it was funded by the American people themselves. It was nice of the Government to tell us about this. It wasn't paid for by the government and a lot of people were screwed as a result because they had a somewhat decent running car that was paid off totally and bought a brand new 30k car with a 4k credit putting themselves into a several year payment debt to a company. When they couldn't afford the payments, they lost their car completely. Now instead of having a somewhat ok car, they now have none.
Netwars4:
Well that's just poor planning on the person's part.
Inv3rted:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2009-05-11-chrysler-gm-cash-clunkers_N.htm
Looks paid for by the government to me.