Mark Snyder wrote: > Inflation may be down to a percent or two, but things like > health care premiums continue to rise at double-digit levels > each year.
The problem with this logic is that even though health care costs continue to rise in ridiculous leaps, the percentage that health care premiums make up of an overall budget is not large enough to translate into double-digit increases for the overall budget. If 20% of an organization's budget were health care costs (which is not realistic) and those costs went up by 20%, that would require a 4% increase in budget. Clearly something has to be done about these increases in health care, but to use that as an excuse to sock the taxpayers for more and more money is not credible. I'm not a knee-jerk conservative who opposes all taxation, but I would hope that every public servant would realize that a dollar taken from families in taxes is a dollar that can't be spent for groceries or housing or education. Walt Cygan Keewaydin _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
