Mike Pompeo (R-KS) believes it's a
hidden tax on Americans that adds up to $200M tax on Americans, and he'd like the FCC to do something about it.
"So it really amounts to a
hidden tax," said City Councilman Noel Gallo.
But many in the room were less preoccupied with the art than with the poetic irony of a Jewish show being held at the Cegep at all: Less than two weeks earlier, Louise Mailloux, a philosophy professor at the college, prompted a political firestorm after giving an interview with the French-language daily La Presse in which she said she "absolutely" stood by her claim that the added cost of kosher-certified products is essentially a
hidden tax levied on Quebec's unwitting Francophone population for the benefit of Jewish interest groups.
Local Labour MP Tom Watson said: "This is a
hidden tax."
"It can ease uncompensated care and relieve the
hidden tax that we all pay.
"In times of crisis, it is all the more important to stamp out the
hidden tax that cartels impose on our economy," he said in a statement.
And talk about a
hidden tax: PSNH includes an unstated tax in most--if not all--electric bills, the money from which goes to low-income households.
Failing to account for this
hidden tax multiplier biases legislative decisions toward more costly policies, Conover charges.
Tory spokesman Michael Gove angrily denied that claim, saying there were no plans for
hidden tax hikes and that savings can be found through efficiency drives and cutting "lavish" spending on bureaucrats.