BGL
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Fuel taxes are excise taxes. By definition an excise tax is not paid directly by the consumer.
Consumer pays gas tax directly at the pump at time of purchase. Many oil companies post breakdowns of cost of gallon of gas at the pump so consumer knows how much of what they pay for gasoline goes to the oil company and how much the consumer is paying in state and Federal taxes.
But that is irrelevant to the point that a similarity between gasoline tax and the tax in Affordable Care Act are that both are avoidable taxes.
As for your charts, I'm not sure what you're trying to prove with that data.
Just answering someone's question.
I don't agree at all with the numbers you keep throwing out there.
Charts show how US system with insurance company tax on health care services is the most expensive, much more expensive than European systems which provide 100% coverage and better results at half the cost. That costs in the US are growing faster than costs in European systems, that US spends way more per capita than European systems. That US could fix health care problems by adopting any one of the much cheaper, more effective European systems.