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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cherd, post: 8469741, member: 24754&quot;]I don&#039;t like paying taxes anymore than anyone else, but the fact of the matter is that none of us pay enough taxes. We&#039;ve all gotten too used to paying too little for the huge benefits that American society provides. The evidence for this is pretty blatant: Our astoundingly high quality of life on the one hand, and our astoundingly huge national deficit on the other.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The impact of the revenue doesn&#039;t matter, it&#039;s the mechanism that is a problem. When we make exceptions for seemingly small things, then we risk a snowball effect that can turn into something more serious.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Auctions can be considered as some kind of &quot;Fair&quot; in the private world, however, &quot;The person that gets the item is the one that can pay the most&quot; amounts to classism when it comes to the State.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, this wasn&#039;t the point anyway. The fact that the &quot;Profit margin&quot; is based on the desirability of a &quot;Product&quot; and the &quot;Demand&quot; of the citizenry is the problem. Is the Mint a government institution or a for-profit business?</p><p><br /></p><p>ps: I know the Federal Reserve is a weird amalgamation of private and government, but it is still a government institution.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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