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Pat Wood /p> p> SCHIPS ON THEIR SHOULDER br> Re: Andrew Cline's Protecting the Most Vulnerable : /p> p>It would probably help if Republicans would quit trying to put a smiley face on Socialism. The SCHIP is already a socialist program or extension of similar programs already weighting down everyone who pays income tax. All the Democrats want to do is expand it to more Americans who will be beholden to them as a result. We lost the principled argument a long time ago and now we are left complaining that the expansion of this or that Karl Marx inspired program will be too costly. From each according to his means to each according to his needs. We are going to keep right on losing the argument and eventually the foundation of the Nation if we keep trying to make Socialism affordable. Somebody has to pay for all that is "free." Starting in about 5 years the real weight of socialism is going to start weighting down fewer and fewer tax payers vs. those depending on it. The more we give away the more will come with their hands out...by the tens of millions and counting. br> -- Thom Bateman br> Newport News, Virginia /p>

So the socialists think this is funny, do they? They whine they are denied 35 billion in tobacco tax revenue for SCHIP, sure to stop smoking and dry up the source. Then who pays? Everyone. Let this man -- the Heritage Foundation's Norman B. Ture -- speak the facts to them in public and let us all see them laugh:

p>"The federal government's appetite for tax revenues appears to know no bounds. Congress has a long list of tax hikes under consideration to pay for new spending. Yet the American taxpayer is already subject to a historically high and rapidly rising level of federal taxes, even when accounting for the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. While the federal tax share is now just above its 40-year average, the taxes paid per individual hits a new record almost every year, even after adjusting for the effects of inflation. Rather than raising taxes, Congress should be looking to cut taxes. A first benchmark of their progress would be to freeze the taxpayer burden at the 2007 level."

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