From: utzoo!laura
Newsgroups: can.politics
Title: Re: taxes 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2816
Posted: Mon Feb 14 08:28:20 1983
Received: Mon Feb 14 08:28:20 1983
References: utcsrgv.1024 

	My mother the Canadian history teacher teaches that income tax
was a tempory measure instituted during WW1 which ought to go away 
forever if at all possible.  Seeing as this seems unlikely, a flat
rate seems a good alternative.  William Buckley has been advocating
this one for years - I believe that it is in "Up the Establishment"
that he quotes exactly how this would change the U.S. tax structure
and its social ramifications, but it could be another of his numerous
books.

	I dont understand why taxing the rich heavily and the poor
lightly is viewed as so "PROGRESSIVE", unless being rich is another
thing which cannot be done in Ontario.			(-:
I would think that what one ought to do is define "poor" as less
than some reasonable figure, and then have all the poor people
send in a postcard in April saying "I am Poor".  You can define
"starving" at some other reasonable figure and have them send in a
card saying "I am starving (postage due)" so that all the government
agencies interested in do-gooding can identify them and send them
relief money (welfare, whatever).  Of course there will still be
slugs who send in "I am starving" when they should be paying their
20% (or whatever), but this is no different from what some lawyers
are charging millions of dollars a year to do in complicated ways
right now.

	Since you dont want to can *all* those government 
paper-shufflers who handle our income tax forms, you can give them
the job of taking 5% of each return and giving it to the appropriate
Health Insurance Plan.  If this gets popular, one might even get
to say where one would like one miserable tenth of what one pays
to go -- mine can go to the Canadian Satellite Development, please.

laura creighton
utzoo!laura