XPost: can.general, can.politics
From: ab.chaplin@yourfinger.rogers.com
John Fleming wrote in
news:tvsuk7logmqvdu02u1hr039qfrr8nsqvs5@4ax.com:
> [Default] On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:57:29 -0800 (PST), while chained to a
> desk in the scriptorium simplicity wrote:
>
>> $On Feb 28, 6:53 pm, Sir eel wrote:
>> $> On Feb 28, 10:15 am, Alan Baggett
>> wrote: $>
>> $> > Economists say Ottawa should tax food
>> $>
>> $> > 02/25/2012 | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press
>> $>
>> $> > Two of Canada's leading economists
>> $>
>> $> ====================================================
>> $>
>> $> ????/ leading economists!
>> $> two buffons who equate the percentage of of disposable income
>> spent $> on food is the same for the $600,000.00 income person as it
>> is for the $> $30,000.00 wage earner.
>> $> You got two choices these two are idiots or they're paid stooges
>> $
>> $To be willing to make oneself look like an idiot for money, one must
>> $be an idiot. Period.
>
> The problem with taxing food is the people who bear the brunt of the
> tax increase are lower income earners.
>
> While someone in a higher income bracket might spend a bit more per
> family member than a lower income earner--more expensive cuts of meat,
> for example--they don't eat significantly more food.
Whether or not one gets "progressive" results from taxing food all lies
in the tax credits that one devises. The only people whom tax on food and
rent could hit unduly are low income earners who do not file tax returns.
Tax *everything*--especially legal fees--at a low rate and use tax
credits to shield the poor.
--
Andrew Chaplin
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