XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   On 29/02/2012 10:05 PM, SaPeIsMa wrote:   
   >   
   > "Marc Bissonnette"  wrote in message   
   > news:XnsA008BA27D4FBBusenetcanadianisp@216.196.97.131...   
   >> "Çons@32%" <Çons@32%@can.ca> wrote in   
   >> news:e4y3r.13139$Ai4.9697@newsfe18.iad:   
   >>   
   >>> "Alan Baggett"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:e3e5d275-7717-47fc-a68d-d7a8a68bb972@i2g2000vbv.googlegroups.com..   
   >>> . Economists say Ottawa should tax food   
   >>>   
   >>> 02/25/2012 | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press   
   >>>   
   >>> Two of Canada's leading economists want Ottawa to reopen one of the   
   >>> hottest issues of the last two decades by expanding the GST to include   
   >>> food in grocery stores.   
   >>>   
   >>> The two economists - Michael Smart of the University of Toronto and   
   >>> Jack Mintz, head of the School of Public Policy at the University of   
   >>> Calgary - say the way Canadian governments collect sales taxes is   
   >>> among the most inefficient in the advanced world.   
   >>>   
   >>> [snip]   
   >>>   
   >>> How nice. I guess their income levels and tax exemptions allow them   
   >>> to foist this kind of shit onto taxpayers.   
   >>> No question in my mind that these two are 'tools' of Harper & Co -   
   >>> being used to test the response of Canadians to still another tax from   
   >>> the Tories.   
   >>   
   >> The entirety of the suggestion was that by removing exemptions from the   
   >> GST, the government could then lower the overall GST rate, which, for   
   >> many   
   >> Canadians, would mean a tax reduction.   
   >>   
   >> Even the poor buy more than just food.   
   >   
   > Don't expect anything more than a knee-jerk superficial reaction from   
   > kkkaren.   
   > She really is NOT capable of anything more intelligent than that.   
      
   Agreed.  Many people's brain farts have more going in them.   
      
      
      
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