Newsgroups: can.general
Path: utzoo!telly!tmsoft!ead
From: ead@tmsoft.uucp (Elizabeth Doucette)
Subject: Re: TAX REVOLT NOW!!
Message-ID: <1989Aug27.032623.28115@tmsoft.uucp>
Followup-To: can.general
Reply-To: ead@tmsoft.UUCP (Elizabeth Doucette)
Organization: EAD MoneyHealth Inc, Toronto, Canada
References: <6758@themepark.UUCP> <1989Aug10.194101.23329@lsuc.on.ca> <1989Aug13.220446.2604@ziebmef.uucp>
Distribution: can
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 89 03:26:23 GMT

In article <1989Aug13.220446.2604@ziebmef.uucp> stephen@ziebmef.UUCP (Stephen 
M. Dunn) writes:

> [...]

>   What we _can_ do is get up off our backsides and make the government so
>uncomfortable (and threaten to do the same for any future government that
>tries to overtax us) that they'll have no choice but to find some more
>sensible way to cut the deficit (I'm sure that amongst the minds reading
>this newsgroup, we could come up with many such schemes that would benefit
>the country as a whole).  Is this likely to happen?  No.  Why?  We're
>Canadians, prone to a life of peacefully accepting whatever the government
>choses to do to us, complaining a little and then sitting back and taking
>it.
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>! Stephen M. Dunn              stephen@ziebmef.UUCP ! DISCLAIMER:  Who'd ever !
>!---------------------------------------------------! claim such dumb ideas?  !
>! I have become comfortably numb ...                ! I sure as heck wouldn't !

I agree with Stephen.  Most of the people I know, both friends and
business associates, bitch and never do anything about it.  However, I
don't think they "peacefully accept" what the government does.  I
believe that they are frustrated and don't believe that one person can
make a difference.  However, I'm often told that doing something is
better than doing nothing. 
  
Why don't each of us come up with a suggestion?  You can send them to
me or to Stephen, if he doesn't mind, and the suggestions can be
summarized and posted.  I've already sent a suggestion to Stephen.

Elizabeth