CBS News/AP
White House Faces Opposition to User Fees
Feb. 12, 2006
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/12/ap/business/mainD8FNA8DG0.shtml(AP) President Bush hates new taxes, that's for sure. But tell that to airline passengers, higher-income veterans and owners of freighters using the St. Lawrence Seaway. They are among those hit up for billions of dollars under his new budget plan.
The spending proposal for the budget year that begins Oct. 1 contains $3.5 billion in new user fees. Typically branded as new taxes by those who have to pay them, these fees are intended to hold down the public's cost for programs such as airline screening, medical care for veterans and military retirees, food inspection and oversight of commodities markets.
The fees would swell to $47.2 billion over five years, dunning taxpayers and industry to help pay for government services.
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