From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: can.general
Title: Re: Politics in Ontario 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2801
Posted: Mon Feb  7 17:00:12 1983
Received: Mon Feb  7 17:00:12 1983

Specifically on the matter of privacy, an observation that Fred Pohl
made a while ago is germane:  the battle is already lost.  The battle
was lost as soon as the income tax rates got high enough that deductions
and exemptions became a political necessity, and the tax collectors
therefore adopted the guilty-until-proven-innocent rule.  If you want
your life to be private from the government, the single most important
thing you can do is fight for flat-rate income taxes.

					Henry Spencer