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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 4:07
PM
Subject: Re: Taxation
Hello back at you. Yes we are still here with boxes up
to our eyeballs. Counting the days till we pull the pin. Our virus
scan said we had a virus so that is why the Mail administrator returned the
emails I think. Anyway, I deleted everything I thought was not suppose to be
coming to us and it seems to have worked. So back in business. Ha. Glad
to hear you are still there too. See you soon. Love Audie and
Ted.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 7:49
AM
Subject: Re: Taxation
Hi You Guys.
It's nice to see(hear) someone else is out there.
ha.
You keep getting mail returned to you. It MAY be
the fact that many of your contacts are away on vacation etc. and the
computer at your internet service provider is "full" and it does not forward
your messages. I've received some back myself with an explanation
saying that the person's computer is "over its limit " on mail storage
capacity. Just a thought, and it's good to hear from someone. ha. It's
been awfully quiet since the get together. ha. Donnie.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 10:20
PM
Subject: Re: Taxation
Hi folks. Is anyone else having trouble getting emails.
We keep getting them returned by mail administrator? Our computer was shut
down for a couple of days and problem has arisen since we turned it back
on.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 9:59
AM
Subject: Taxation
For anyone who missed the Dunford column
this morning, I thought it was a pretty accurate take on the ridiculous
state of over-taxation in this country. No wonder there is a huge
underground "cash" economy.
Nibbled to
death
Taxation, double taxation, triple taxation:
It's all part of living and buying in Canada
By GARY DUNFORD -- Toronto
Sun
SUMMER SNOOZE: Good morning, sheep. Sorry to interrupt
your reading about dear dead Elvis, Vin Diesel's fake tattoos and
whether or not Jean Chretien can still make a fist.
Rise and
shine, pop the pills you bought at the drug store, shave with the new
razor, shower with new shampoo, and--tho the bill was $107.37--you paid
$122.36. GST $7.42, PST $7.47.
Pour some juice, eat a doughnut
--but why did you buy detergent, paper towels and a sponge at the
grocery? The bill would have been $26.40. You paid $32.95.
On
the way to work, gas up the car. For about $10 of gas, you're invited to
pay $16.80. More than 40% of the gas cost is taxes.
Running
late? Use the cross-town tollway you paid taxes to build but pay for
again each time you dare go on it. For a ride of 10 minutes you'll pay
$3.49. Plus a non-transponder charge of $5.30. Plus an account fee of $2
to receive the bill. Plus $.14 in GST. Your 10 minute ride will cost you
$10.93, more than a buck a minute. Oh well.
Look! The new hydro
bill has arrived. Electricity, plus so much more!
You're dinged
$121.18 for electricity, an additional $21.70 basic service charge,
$28.78 as a volume charge, $39.32 Hydro One claims they paid to get the
electricity, $15.75 to "retire" the $38-billion debt run up in the 50
years hydro was were so badly mismanaged nobody even wants to talk about
it, $15.87 for GST. You use $121.18 in electricity, you pay an
astonishing $242.60. Everybody say "bargoon."
Tax on tax
Note you pay GST on the debt retirement charge tho it is neither
"goods" nor a "service." Hydro and the tax dipsticks thought that would
be an excellent idea. You pay tax on top of tax at the gas pump, right?
They knew you wouldn't mind doing it again. Double taxation, triple
taxation, full speed ahead.
The phone bill's here--$22.15 for
service, but you'll pay $25.48. Tax.
That $17.99 bath mat you
need will cost $20.69. Tax.
Death by a thousand cuts. You're
nibbled to death by rabbits.
You pay property taxes, income
taxes and -- if you're lucky enough to be self-employed -- you'll get to
prepay your income tax and GST taxes quarterly, plus annually. Four
times a year for the GST, plus an annual summary. Four times a year for
the income tax, plus the annual filing. Ten tax filings a year! All the
bilingual forms go to--here's a happy coincidence! -- Shawinigan.
There are invoices, papers, deadlines, notices, tax advisories
and departmental newsletters for all this multiple money-shuffling. If
your plumber or cabby seems a bit harried, perhaps he has writer's
cramp.
Many municipalities charge a buck for each bag of
garbage. Is there LESS garbage in a community that levies a surcharge?
Or just more soiled diapers, household crap tossed in parks, sideroads
and alleys? If your property tax is not for the garbage and a snowplow,
what the hell is it for?
There's not enough money to fund
healthcare. Or schools. Or replace aging streets or sewers. We can't
afford an army. We are the proud owners of four submarines that can't
leave the dock. What do they do with all our money? We don't know. We
don't care. We be total dim-wits.
A whack of our tax hit goes to
retire the national debt. The debt is paid down more slowly than any
bank would allow a taxpayer. The debt was run up by elves and fairies,
for surely voters would not send politicians to Ottawa who do not
realize they should spend less than we make. Would we?
Jumbo-sized legislature
Tho a tenth the size,
Canada has a Parliament that is larger than the U.S. Congress. Each
province has its own jumbo-sized legislature, with attendant civil
service army. There is loot to fund ridiculous academic research, cover
the outrages uncovered in each year's Auditor General's Report.
Will our masters really build another Trans-Canada Highway
beside the patched-up, pot-holed strip that's already there? Give
everybody who can hump two years off to babysit? Pay more bagmen to sit
in the Senate?
Over-taxed, over-governed, over-regulated, they
take our money and run.
We are way too accustomed to walking
with multiple tax hands in our pockets. Not a single party or politician
has ever seriously lifted a finger in the name of tax reform. That too
is okay with us. Wouldn't you think at least a few rebel souls would cry
" Enough?" We are complete idiots.
Go back to sleep, sheep.
Sorry to have bothered you. Have a nice snooze. Exciting Liberal
leadership race, eh? Too bad about Elvis. Zzzzzz.
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