Editor: Just finished reading about how the “Insurers will pass along tax hike” in one of our local papers. It should come as no surprise that the insurance companies would pass the tax increase for health care on to the policyholders. It is interesting that there is a section of this bill that allows the cost to be passed on to policyholders. No kidding, gosh, I wonder who put that in the bill. It should not take a rocket scientist to figure this one out. No matter what tax is levied against any product or service, it is always paid by the consumer. If you tax gas, the gas companies do not pay the tax. When you add an additional tax onto license plates, the state does not pay this tax. When you tax a motel room, the traveler pays this tax – not the motel. If you add another small tax on phone service you can bet they pass it on to the consumer. Levy a tax on beer and wine – yep, that’s right, the customer pays. Cigarette taxes are not paid by the tobacco companies. Payroll tax, I’ll pay one way or another by the way of higher prices on everything. Higher minimum wage, I’m paying for it, not the fast food industry. The consumer always pays in the end. That is why there is no such thing as: free lunches, free health care, free mortgage bail out, free rebates on a new cars, free welfare check, free food stamps, free child care, free housing, free bike paths, free college grants. or free anything else; someone somewhere is paying for all these entitlements and you can bet “your bottom dollar” (if you have one left) it will be the consumer.