by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| The colonists rebelled against taxes imposed upon them without their consent and that were so repressive. The initial rebellion, however, led to even heavier taxes levied by Parliament in retaliation. Among these heavier taxes was, in June 1767, the tea tax, which would become the watershed of America's desire for freedom.
The colonists rebelled and openly purchased imported tea, largely Dutch in origin. In further retaliation, England granted English tea companies the right to bypass colonial merchants and sell tea directly to the colonists. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Poll and animal taxes compelled subsistence farmers and nomads alike to produce goods for French markers. Held to new political boundaries, nomadic tribesmen who had moved their herds across the landscape for centuries increased their livestock density to pay taxes. Farmers moved north into marginal lands to plant crops for export to Europe. Pastoralists expanded south into areas where lack of reliable water and insecurity had previously limited the number of cattle and sheep. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 When you pay taxes on a fitness membership you are paying the government to improve youo health. Joining a quality fitness center is a proactive, preventive way to increase your vitality, health and well-being. Since most quality clubs offer weight management programs they are a good first line of defense in the quest for optimal health. Diets alone do not work! They never have, and they never will.
Removing this tax would eliminate the need for clubs to charge more on the enrollment or on the membership dues to pay Uncle Sam.
Why stop there? |
Melody Petersen
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 State and local government officials across the country had been forced to raise taxes and cut services, including education and road construction, to cover the rising cost.
In Iowa, the cost of prescription drugs for patients covered by Medicaid had surged by almost 25 percent a year between 2001 and 2003. With medical costs rising much faster than inflation or state tax revenues, Iowa government officials had no choice but to reduce other services. |
| That meant that a working person without health insurance was paying taxes that covered the cost of medical care for the poor, the elderly, veterans, prison inmates, and public employees yet would be on his own if he got sick.
Analysts said there was no end in sight to the soaring costs. By 2015 America is expected to spend 20 percent of all it produces on health care.
By then Pfizer may be the biggest company on the planet, Mercy Health System may be one of the largest landowners in Des Moines and its suburbs, and Iowa will need many more casinos. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Remove sales taxes on, or provide other incentives for, purchase of exercise equipment.
?Provide tax incentives to encourage employers to provide weight management programs.
Policy development
?Use the National Nutrition Summit to develop a national campaign to prevent obesity.
?Produce a Surgeon General's Report on Obesity Prevention.
?Expand the scope of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports to include nutrition and to emphasize obesity prevention.
?Develop a coordinated federal implementation plan for the Healthy People 2010 nutrition and physical activity objectives. |
David R. Montgomery
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| Lingering resentment over debilitating tobacco taxes and perceived obstructions to westward expansion helped fuel dissatisfaction with British rule.
Colonial agriculture remained focused on tobacco in the South despite depressed prices sremming from oversupply and the requirement that the whole crop be shipped to England. By the middle of the eighteenth century, government duries accounted for about 80 percent of the sale price of tobacco; the planter's share had dropped to less than 10 percent. |
Richard Bartlett
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Shooting the Wave
I had just picked up a set of sockets from Sears because they had rebates, which made them free (less taxes, of course). I was removing them from their packaging and assembling them on my socket rack when I noticed the smallest socket, which should have been 10mm, was 3/8" instead. 10mm is a very popular size on foreign autos, so I was disappointed, free or not! I took the rack in to show Patty, but it was oriented incorrectly for that purpose. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 EARLY CLUES
I have never gotten my taxes in before October. Every year begins the same way, with me resolving to beat the taxman's deadline. In early January I neatly gather all my documents for my accountant. Then, inevitably, I'll find that a monthly statement has gone missing. I need to call my credit card company for a copy, which seems simple enough, but it kills my enthusiasm. The detail of tracking down the missing document, or buying those little white tabs for labeling files, will gnaw at the back of my mind for months. But the momentum is gone and along with it my motivation. |
David R. Montgomery
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| When the price collapsed during the post-war period Great Plains farmers continued to plant latge wheat acreages in a desperate endeavot to get money with which to pay debt charges, taxes, and other unavoidable expenses. They had no choice in the matter. Without money they could not remain solvent or continue to farm. Yet to get money they were obliged to extend farming practices which were collectively ruinous. |
Bill Sardi
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 The subsidies are handed out to about 135,000 farmers, mostly in Greece, [Journal National Cancer Institute 95: 1187-88, 2003]
Tax and smoke
The government claims it invokes taxes on cigarettes to inhibit smoking. But an evaluation of state cigarette tax increases on cigarette sales in the 50 states for the years 1955 to 1988 found the average decline in cigarette consumption was a paltry three cigarette packs per capita (about 2.4%). [American Journal Public Health 82: 94-96, 1992]
Larger tax increases are associated with larger declines in consumption. |
David R. Montgomery
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| Within a few years guano taxes financed the Chilean government. Demonstrated to greatly enhance harvests, guano rapidly became a strategic resource.
The government of Peru maintained tight control over its guano monopoly. American farmers frustrated over the rising price of Chincha Islands guano agitated for breaking the Peruvian monopoly. President Millard Fillmore admonished Congress in 1850 that it was the duty of the government ro ensure guano traded at a reasonable price. Entrepreneurs scoured whaling records to rediscover unclaimed guano islands where the stuff could be mined freely. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 But Americans, like Englishmen, disliked paying taxes. The stamp tax13 was withdrawn in 1766, bur in the same session of Commons a resounding declaration was made that the British Parliament had every right to tax the colonies, and trifling, annoying duties ("of principle"), costing far more to collect than they produced in revenue, were imposed on glass, lead, paper, and tea. But King George III obstinately persuaded his ministers that, when the other taxes were reduced, the one on tea should remain, though at only 3 pence per pound. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 The NIH is supported by money from taxes. Take the case of the COX-2 inhibitors, like Vioxx. The mechanisms of COX-2 inhibition that led to the development of the COX-2 inhibitors were discovered at a university by researchers supported by taxpayers' dollars.
In order to keep making money, drug companies are under enormous pressure to create new drugs they can patent and sell without competition for twenty years, after which patents run out and generic (cheaper) versions go to market. In fact, there really aren't a lot of truly new drugs being developed these days. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 For some, the final drop that spills the barrel may be an infiltrating virus that taxes the immune system just one degree too much, setting an autoimmune response in motion (as has been the case in my own life); for others, it might be an unexpected environmental hit that pushes the immune system into overload and chaos. Given Jan's risk factors, Jan was hovering at that threshold. She was at that brim. |
Melody Petersen
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| Mercy was aided by the fact that it was classified as a nonprofit charity and did not need to pay taxes on any of the millions it made. It was not the only hospital constructing grand new facilities. Iowa Methodist Medical Center had broken ground on a new surgery and cardiovascular center just a mile or so away. These projects were part of the biggest boom in hospital construction in the United States since World War II.
And the physicians inside those hospitals? They were making plenty of money too. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 Reagan's "supply-side" economic advisors retailed a set of fiscal ideas that neatly accessorized the new notions about free trade and deregulation, chiefly that massively reducing taxes would actually result in greater revenues as the greater aggregate of business activity generated a greater aggregate of taxes even at lower rates. (What it actually generated was huge government deficits.)
By the mid-1980s deregulated markets and unbridled business were regarded as magic bullets to cure the ills of senile smokestack industrialism. Greed was good. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Then place even higher taxes on tobacco products. All of these items contribute to poor health and the potential for early death.
All Things in Moderation
IVIany of us struggle with our weight. It is estimated that in any given year over 70 percent of adults in the U.S. go on a diet. Ninety five percent of those diets fail. No wonder. We live in a land of excess and are constantly bombarded by marketing messages imploring us to consume. In America we proudly celebrate our hedonistic habits. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Just pay your taxes, buy your junk food, put your babies on Prozac and shut the heck up, okay?
And the situation looks like it's only going to get worse. In America, at least. Europeans, Canadians and practically everyone else in the world is way ahead of the game on this. In Europe, genetically engineered foods must be clearly labeled, and many countries have actually banned GM exports from the United States (about which the U.S. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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| What I would suggest, then, is to either choose a sport that simultaneously taxes the cardiovascular system and the brain—tennis is a good example—or do a ten-minute aerobic warm-up before something nonaerobic and skill-based, such as rock climbing or balance drills. While aerobic exercise elevates neurotransmitters, creates new blood vessels that pipe in growth factors, and spawns new cells, complex activities put all that material to use by strengthening and expanding networks. The more complex the movements, the more complex the synaptic connections. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That's right, we all get flax seeds and we pay our taxes in healthy oils. You see, the problem today with paying taxes in dollars is that the federal government can then decide how to misuse those dollars. This is how we end up with dollars used for ridiculous pork barrel projects. This is how dollars get devoted to building more rockets, bombs, ammunition and funding wars all around the world. It's because we -- the people who pay the tax -- don't really have any control over what happens when those tax dollars go to Washington. (It's the lobbyists, stupid... |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you guessed, "Because powerful corporations generate billions in profits selling drugs, and governments get a cut of that via state sales taxes and corporate income taxes" then BINGO! You win a prize: a lifetime of free Prozac to keep you happy!
Legal drugs generate windfall profits for those in power
Think about it: if prescription drugs were peddled by street dealers instead of doctors, and if all that revenue changed hands in a non-taxable, non-corporate structure (i.e. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| The initial rebellion, however, led to even heavier taxes levied by Parliament in retaliation. Among these heavier taxes was, in June 1767, the tea tax, which would become the watershed of America's desire for freedom.
The colonists rebelled and openly purchased imported tea, largely Dutch in origin. In further retaliation, England granted English tea companies the right to bypass colonial merchants and sell tea directly to the colonists. In plotting this strategy, England was counting on the well-known passion among American women for tea. It was a major miscalculation. |
Bill Sardi
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| So Fortune Magazine estimated that taxes, donations, and private R & D, all totaled, in the war on cancer, piles up to $200 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars since 19711 That's a lot of money for no cures.
More tragic, virtually every cancer researcher concedes cancer is very difficult to treat and that cancer prevention programs would likely produce real declines in cancer mortality. Yet very little of the money spent on the war on cancer is devoted truly to prevention.
The money has produced knowledge, a great deal of it -- 1. |
| However, states are still funding many programs off of these taxes and rely upon young people to continually light up. [Washington Post March 9, 2006] o o o
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What smokers and ex-smokers should be doing
Smokers and ex-smokers should habitually take dietary supplements to reduce their risk for lung cancer. |
| Laws, taxes, and anti-smoking ads aren't stopping the tobacco industry. [Journal American Medical Assn 2698: 793-94, 1993]
A study conducted by Stanford University School of Medicine finds that industry sponsored anti-smoking ads do more to promote corporate image than to prevent youth from smoking. "By cultivating public opinion that is more sympathetic toward tobacco companies, the effect of such advertising is likely to be more harmful than helpful to youth," said their report. |
| Journal Health Economics 24: 277-97, 2005]
It was estimated that the deterrent effect caused by cigarette taxes implemented in 1983 would increase the number of people living to the age of 65 by 100,000 persons. [British Journal Addiction 84: 1217-34, 1989] But over two decades later, 160,000 Americans still die every year from lung cancer, with most of the deaths occurring among adults over age 65. Since lung cancer has a about a 20-year incubation period, any large decline in smoking will take years to produce a significant drop in mortality rates. |
| Tobacco taxes are pledged to be used to conduct anti-smoking advertisements. Exposure to anti-tobacco TV ads is said to increase the rate for quitting smoking by 10%, but this happens only after 5,000 TV spots are aired. [Health Education Research Nov. 14, 2005] These aren't tobacco eradication programs, they are public charades and excuses to tax citizenry.
How much of the tax on tobacco is actually spent on anti-tobacco advertising? From 1999 to 2002, the State of California imposed a per pack tax increase that was intended to reduce consumption by a miniscule 2. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 And that taxes your pancreas, which then leads to either insulin deficiency or to greater insulin resistance and, therefore, type 2 diabetes. Diabetes really is chronic hypoglycemia."
To learn if a link exists between hypoglycemia and diabetes, the Hypoglycemia Support Foundation (HSF) conducted an extensive online survey, receiving more than 5,500 responses, 3,752 of them from diagnosed hypoglycemics from 25 countries. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Class differences there certainly were—especially between what were considered to be "gentry" and all others—but the hereditaty nobility was very small since only elder sons could inherit titles, the test of the sons and daughters being commoners; and the nobility was not exempt from taxes as it was in France.45 While the nobility and gentry might maintain town houses in London so as to be in contact with the sources of political power, they spent most of their time in the countryside among the very people upon whose rents they lived. |
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