Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!stephen
From: stephen@ziebmef.uucp (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Our overtaxed country
Message-ID: <1989Aug9.154655.4865@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 9 Aug 89 19:46:54 GMT
Distribution: can
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Canada
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   Well, Michael Wilson's latest tax started me thinking again about how
over-taxed we are, and I have a couple of questions:

1.  Could anyone post the list of tax freedom days for each province for
    1989?  All I can remember is that here in Ontario, as in many (most?)
    other provinces, it's sometime in July (disgusting, isn't it?)

2.  Are there in fact any countries other than Canada where Joe/Josephine
    Average pays more than half his/her income to the various governments?

3.  Other than the usual answer ("because we're Canadians"), why do we only
    make a fuss for a couple of weeks when a tax hike comes along and then sit
    back and take it quietly?
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