From: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!mabgarstin Newsgroups: can.general Title: Re: Politics in Ontario Article-I.D.: watcgl.173 Posted: Tue Feb 8 05:44:56 1983 Received: Tue Feb 8 06:46:53 1983 In response to flat rate income tax I give a hearty "Here, here!". I say everyone, every company across the board pay a flat rate of say 20% or maybe 15% tax and divide up another 5% between UIC, OHIP, etc. The only problem I see is that charities would then become what they are supposed to be (i.e. NON-PROFIT). The public aux general is not as altruistic as the present tax structure would have us believe. One could say then that an individual or company could then deduct up to, lets say, 5% for charity (that is to say 20% income tax becomes 15% income tax because 5% is charity) but that was how all this mess started in the first place, the government trying to make us do something that we really don't want to. H**ls Bells, I would like to see a bit of a backbone in the government for once and let us manage on our own for awhile. These parliaments remind me an awful lot of my mother, telling me what is right and good for me. I'm about to turn 27, I've been married for over 2 years, I'm about to graduate and I own my own home yet my mother still tells me that I'm not old enough to know weither or not I'm trully in love with my wife ( she wants me to get a divorce ) she thinks that I don't know what I really want to do in life as a vocation and she does and thinks that I don't know to handle money despite the fact that I do own a home and I've never had a full time job in my life. Sorry for the little dialogue-diarrhea but isn't that how you feel about the government, always on your back about something when you would like them just to leave you alone so that you can get on with living? Please send all flames or letters of support to the "Elect MAB for prime minister campaigne". c/o MAB watmath!watcgl!mabgarstin in the graphics lab at the University of Waterloo