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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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