Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!julian!uwovax!gerard
From: gerard@uwovax.uwo.ca (Gerard Stafleu)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: TAX REVOLT NOW!!
Message-ID: <3522@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 11 Aug 89 12:40:37 GMT
References: <6758@themepark.UUCP>
Distribution: can
Organization: University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada
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In article <6758@themepark.UUCP>, jamest@themepark.UUCP (James H. Tinkess) writes:
> It infuriates me to no end that the government considers the middle class
> a endless source of capital for financing their relentless spending.

They do that because that is where the money is, almost by definition.
> Canada being the most overtaxed country in the western world, surely has
> had enough! 

You wouldn't be a closet-American would you? I thought they wre the only 
people who thought that My-Country == World.  [Sorry, I just couldn't 
resist that one!]  In most of Northern Western Europe, taxation is equal 
if not higher than in Canada.  I'll venture the following list of 
countries:  Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, 
Luxembourgh, Switzerland.  And I'm wondering about Australia, and 
certainly New Zealand.

Someone asked about tax freedom days.  I have some answers there.  I'll 
repost part of an article I wrote a month ago:

----------------- Partial repost from early July ------------------
I found the following numbers in the local newspaper (the London Free
Press). They got the numbers from the Fraser Institue, in Vancouver. 

Based on an "avarage" family (income $50,500), today, Friday July 7, is
tax freedom day in Ontario.  This means that the income earned so far
went to taxes, now we are working for ourselves.  This is an increase of
three days since last year, and of 12 days since 1986.  These are
Ontario numbers; nationally tax freedom day is July 3, an increase of 
two days since last year.

The avarage family mentioned above pays a total of 51.3% of their gross 
salary in taxes.  This number breaks down as follows:

   Type of tax      % of income   % of tax paid

   Income              19.6           38.1
   Sales                9.1           17.1
   UIC, CPP             7.2           14.1
   Profits (?)          5.3           10.3
   Property, education  3.7            7.3
   Import duties etc.   3.1            6.0
   Sin                  2.0            3.9
   Gasoline, licences   1.3            2.6
                       ----          -----
   Total               51.3          100.0

I put a question mark behind the profits, because I don't quite 
understand what that catagory means.