Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utegc!utai!ubc-vision!fornax!chapman From: chapman@fornax.uucp Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: who should pay for education. sort of. Message-ID: <216@fornax.uucp> Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 13:28:45 EST Article-I.D.: fornax.216 Posted: Mon Mar 2 13:28:45 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 3-Mar-87 03:51:04 EST References: <215@fornax.uucp> <5538@watmath.UUCP> Distribution: can Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada Lines: 44 >Reasonable, if you allow them to deduct, yearly from their debt the difference > between their taxes and the mean income tax of the average Canadian. > Why? After all they don't have to do this. > should not take long. Current figures show the government collecting over > 50% of the GNP. Perhaps the figure is higher for people in higher brackets. > (The incremental tax rate is 50%, and once you add sales taxes and numerous Actually the maximum marginal rate from the federal government is 34% on taxable income over $62,657. Each province then adds a different percentage of this as their tax. > > We may also wish to consider letting the parents, if they pay above-mean tax, > to deduct an appropriate portion of their above-mean tax from the debt. > > Otherwise this concept of imprisoning people within an area until they pay > off their debt or renounce their career is about the last thing I ever expected > to hear from a noted leftist like Mr. Chapman! > > All in all a silly idea. > -- Let me try and put it in terms you'll understand Brad. Someone wants something so we give them the money to do it with the understanding that we get some benefit from this investment. They must then provide the benefit or refund the money. Sort of like business, you know? As for being a "noted leftist", it's flattering Brad but I'm afraid this (illusory) notoriety is undeserved. It may interest you to know that with the exception of a couple of "grunt" jobs while a student I've spent 15 years running my own business, filing corporate returns, making sure balance sheets balance etc. and hustling my butt getting business. Successfully. I doubt the left would consider me one of their own. Your postings show a certain lack of broad experience. Perhaps you ought to travel a bit outside your circle. Talk to more people with differing viewpoints. Try to develop a world view that isn't so black and white. > Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont. (519) 884-7473 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***