[Redcloak]

A better idea would be to show the increased cost to the consumer on their receipts. Add a line item after the sales tax that reads "State Mandated Health Care Surcharge for Wal-Mart Customers".

[darbymcgill]

Add a line item after the sales tax that reads "State Mandated Health Care Surcharge for Wal-Mart Customers".

They tried that with the "universal service" tax on the phone bill. The regulators refused to allow them to indicate on the bills that it was a tax. The phone companies were forced to display the charges as though they were getting the money. Read the fine print on your phone bills some time and check out the charges not shown as taxes... particularly the universal service charge. It is a tax to pay for Al Gore's Internet, old people to have phones, economic rural phone service etc... More welfare..