| 21. | Such a big gap between official and market prices implies that farmers are actually paying a hidden tax.
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| 22. | However, opponents say the program levies a hidden tax on consumers by artificially raising the prices of sweetened products.
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| 23. | It is also piling hidden taxes on American consumers and jeopardizing much larger industries with presumably less effective lobbyists.
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| 24. | Some consumer advocates say these hidden taxes ( paid by consumers, of course ) help keep big business honest.
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| 25. | Other critics say emissions trading is " a hidden tax, " said Gail McDonald, president of the Global Climate Coalition.
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| 26. | The reduction in filing fees came at the urging of Bliley, who called the costs a hidden tax on business.
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| 27. | "This Republican Congress is going to stand up and put an end to the hidden tax of regulation, " he says.
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| 28. | Regulators continue to preside over this hidden tax, as the local telephone company is forced to overcharge for its business products.
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| 29. | If this did proceed to the ballot and had won, in effect the taxpayers would have been voting for a hidden tax,
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| 30. | At The Boston Tea Party, colonists threw British tea into Boston Harbor because it contained a hidden tax Americans refused to pay.
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