taxes

"Reproaching people who complain about taxes, Liane Ellison Norman insists that 'taxes are really just prices”'(Letters, New York Times Dec 17).

"No ma’am.  Prices are terms of exchanges voluntarily agreed to by willing buyers and willing sellers.  Because prices result from people spending – or not spending! – their own money, they reflect genuine consumer desires and resource scarcities.

Opponents of tolls often say "a toll is just a tax" or they call tolls "toll taxes". They think that they can damn the toll or the toll increase by saying it's a tax. This is stupid because a toll is not a tax, and because most people accept taxes anyway.

A tax has two major characteristics:

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