Newsgroups: can.general Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: TAX REVOLT NOW!! Message-ID: <1989Aug13.000459.27775@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <6758@themepark.UUCP> <6761@ulysses.UUCP> <6763@cognos.UUCP> <28307@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 89 00:04:59 GMT In article <28307@watmath.waterloo.edu> rwwetmore@grand.waterloo.edu (Ross Wetmore) writes: >... Under a regime in which the people have >no say in their government, it might be justifiable to blame government >greed for excessive taxation. But in Canada, government policy is a reflection >of the will of the people, at least as portrayed by the pollsters, pressure >groups and media which are trying to mould it into their own shape. That's a big "at least". The fact is, the government does not hesitate to ignore the will of the people on issues like capital punishment, where it considers the will of the people misguided. (I will not address the issue of whether this view is correct.) The people really have very little control over the doings of the government, especially since the two major parties -- one of which invariably gets in -- are Tweedledee and Tweedledum and seldom differ in important ways. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu