From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   On 01/03/2012 6:43 AM, Andrew Chaplin wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   I have a better idea.   
      
   Instead of new greedy government taxes forget more taxes, maybe even   
   eliminate some.   
      
   Time for government to squeeze the fat out.  Insatiably losing economic   
   liberty to greedy governments is stupid.  Take F35 and sub waste, take   
   IMF/UN corruption waste, take the glass houses and fake lake   
   wastes...10s of billions of waste annually and not a bit helps Canadians.   
      
   Also have over 2 million abled bodied people in Canada on sociali   
   assistance in one form or another (welfare, First Nations,   
   immigration...).... maybe time for the lazy bastards to get a job?   
      
   Maybe trim those port barrel egalitarian government wages and pensions a   
   bit.  If CPP/OAS has to wait until 67, why not the government pork   
   barrel elitists?   
      
   In 2006 Ottawa government GA, the cost of running government wages,   
   buildings, benefits, pensions etc was 25.5 cents of each tax dollar.   
   Today it has grown to 29.5% of every tax dollar so one might ask why all   
   the new pork?   
      
   And 30 more bickering useless MPs?  Just more bureaucracy on the backs   
   of the people from greedy Ottawa.   
   --   
   Corrupt USA, Euro Bank and Military Regime, funding both sides of   
   terrorism for profit and debt-tax slavery.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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