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From: TMCLELLA@UALTAVM.BITNET (Tim Mclellan)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Flat Tax Rate
Message-ID: <644@UALTAVM.BITNET>
Date: 17 Aug 89 13:55:08 GMT
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In article <1713@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>, fare@.ucalgary.ca (Michael David Farebrother) writes:
 
>a "30(?)% income tax" , no exclusions, no deductions, just report your
>income and pay 30% of it.
 
I have been fond of this idea for a long time now.  Peter Pocklington in one
election campaign a few years back, also had this scheme in mind.
 
It would be so simple, and so fair.  If everyone had to pay tax on their gross
income, maybe we could all pay a little less in the end.  The rich would have
no write offs.
 
Every month, your employer (or whoever) would simply remit your taxes directly
to Rev Canada.  No forms, no headaches, no tax prep rip-offs.
 
Naw, that'd be too simple, easy, fair, ...
 
--
Tim McLellan                        University of Alberta
                                    Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
"Personal shopping only"              ( I only work there )
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