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From: rgatkinson@watmum.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Foreign students treated unfairly.
Message-ID: <847@watmum.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 23:12:19 EST
Article-I.D.: watmum.847
Posted: Thu Mar  5 23:12:19 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Mar-87 22:21:54 EST
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Reply-To: rgatkinson@watmum.UUCP (Robert Atkinson)
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In article <2396@watdragon.UUCP> daford@watdragon.UUCP (Daniel Ford) writes:
>While I don't think they should be treated unfairly, I find it hard to get
>upset if they get charged $50 bucks for UIC and then can't collect.

I suppose that as a student at Waterloo I should also not object to 
being charged a "computer fee" that goes into general revenues, or
an over-priced $850/year "coop fee" that supports overall operations?
It's not so much the money behind these things (at least for me, perhaps
I'm luckier than most) but the principle involved.  What right do we
have to charge people for insurance they can't collect?  On what moral
principle is that based?  If you want to tax them *then call it a tax*
If we start abusing this sort of thing, then it becomes too hard to
keep track of what those in power are up to, and too easy for them
to slip things under the rug.

>Daniel A. Ford 					daford@watdragon.uucp

	-bob atkinson