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   "John Fleming"  wrote in message   
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   > [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.   
      
   Taxing everything would be coupled with a higher GST credit--so   
   they claim. GST credits, as you know, are family net income tested   
   so only the needy get them.   
      
      
   >   
   > 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.   
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   >   
   > John Fleming   
   > Edmonton, Canada   
   >   
   >   
   >     Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O   
   >     And on that farm he had a genome E-I-E-I-O   
   >     With a SNP SNP here and a SNP SNP there,   
   >     Here a SNP, there a SNP, everywhere a SNP SNP   
   >     Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O   
      
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