Path: utzoo!lsuc!nrcaer!ulysses!garym
From: garym@ulysses.UUCP (Gary Murphy)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: TAX REVOLT NOW!!
Message-ID: <6761@ulysses.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 19:26:13 GMT
References: <6758@themepark.UUCP>
Reply-To: garym@cognos.UUCP (Gary Murphy)
Distribution: can
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <6758@themepark.UUCP> jamest@cognos.UUCP (James H. Tinkess) writes:
>With taxes consuming over 50 percent of our income the time has come  for
>a tax revolt. 

Compare the 1934 price of aluminum vs the cost of the hydro power to produce
it, and compare THAT to the 1989 prices: the figure is more like 95% with
governments getting less than you think.  Why stop at tax?  What about
price fixing?

>Government spending should be cut DRASTICALLY; But what about the those all
>social programs, well to use a favorite quote: You don't work, You don't get 
>paid!!!

Anyone I've ever known on social services spends all day trying to get by
on the pittance we more affluent (and wasteful) types are willing to share.
If you think I'm being a bleeding heart, I dare you to repeat the above
sentence in any of our nation's nursing homes.  There's also this matter
of the $1million cost per gallon of gasoline (in nature's energy-investment
terms) that suggests we should pay people NOT to work.

>We owe it to ourselves to phone our MP's and let them know that the ride is 
>over!! If we don't, we deserve what we get.

Isn't "political solution" a contradiction in terms?

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