Did you know Romney's nickname is "Fee fee"???

Did you know Romney's nickname is "Fee fee"???He opposes raising taxes, but has no problem raising "fees." Some high lights or low lights depending on who you ask include or would have included...
Also under Romney's plan, the state Department of Mental Retardation would have charged a fee of $ 100 to determine a client's eligibility and the Department of Public Health would have charged $ 50 for initial tuberculosis tests. Another $ 400 fee would have been assessed for those who tested positive. Those proposals were ultimately rejected.
Prisoners also would have paid more. Romney's plan would have hiked the cost of a phone call from behind bars to $ 2 from 86 cents. The price is still 86 cents.
Under Romney's plan for Massachusetts, the cost of registering firearms would have jumped from $ 25 to $ 75. He also called for increases in the cost of firearm identification cards, application fees for a license to carry firearms, and gun dealer fees.
In all, then-Gov. Romney proposed creating 33 new fees and increasing 57 others — enough, he said, to pull in an extra $ 59 million for the cash-strapped state.

"It's a shell game," said Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. "He can still say he didn't raise taxes, but fees are taxes by another name. It's a trick."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_on_el_pr/romney_fees;_ylt=AucWBWisO.ZWzOs3SloMll2s0NUE

Answer by JOHN
no

Answer by stay_fan2
So what?

I prefer THIS method (b/c people applying for MR test are the ones who pay) rather than a GENERAL tax (where I subsidize people who apply for MR test, which is now free to them).

It discourages people who apply or use services frivolously.

I like this.
What if we did health care like this?
Or - GASP! - made people who live in FLOOD zones and HURRICANE zones pay FEES when FEMA has to rebuild their underinsured houses?

This is a friggin GREAT idea!

Answer by Mezmarelda
And at the same time I hope you realize that when they increase fees we all pay the same fee regardless of how much you earn. So again the rich pay less and the poor pay more.

It was fine when we put the governments expenses on the income tax when the rich pay more and the poor pay less. It's only fair.

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