chimp wants to raise taxes (er, uh, government fees) by $47 billion.

[Ernesto]

March 1 (Bloomberg) -- While President George W. Bush is adamantly against raising taxes, he's increasingly comfortable with imposing billions of dollars in new government fees, as the airline, commodities and shipping industries have discovered.
Bush's 2007 budget proposal would raise more than $47 billion over the next five years by imposing, raising or extending expiring fees on everything from airline tickets to oil drilling to commodity transactions to ships passing through the St. Lawrence Seaway.
``It's a way for the administration to get around its `we'll never-raise-taxes' attitude,'' said Stan Collender, managing director of the Washington office of Financial Dynamics, a business-consulting firm.


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=al.9n5U5HFSw

[Kierkegaard]

1. "Read my lips"

Stupid monkey...

[SoCalDem]

2. Message to John Q. Public, "We won't raise your taxes"

Unfortunately, that $300 we sent you a couple of years back is gonna have to stretch a bit further that you thought..Hope you saved it..(Oh wait..we told you to spend it to stimulate the economy)...

But you got that tax cut we sent you, didn't ya? You probably got a little trickled down to you..

Too bad about the

quadrupling of your share of medical insurance, and the doubling of co-pays
tripling of gasoline prices
doubling of home heating costs

escalation of college costs (seriously..your kid won't need college to work the jobs of the 21st century 'Merika..

rising property taxes, state income taxes, airline surcharges, increasing supermarket costs

:(