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From: acton@ubc-cs.UUCP (Donald Acton)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Tax Freedom Day
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Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 03:41:29 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 03:41:29 1985
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  Sunday June 23 was tax freedom day for British Columbians. For the
"average" Canadian tax freedom day falls on July 1st this year. Up until 
tax freedom day all the money you have earned has been used to pay taxes
to the various levels of government. (They actually collect it over the whole 
year though :-) Far too often people just think that the only tax they
pay is income tax and, for those people not in Alberta, provincial sales 
tax when in fact we are paying a lot more. When I think that ~50% of my income
is used to finance the government's grandiose plans I don't think I am 
getting a very big bang for my buck. The federal government's insistence 
on borrowing  ~1/3 more than it collects doesn't make me feel any better 
either. Some serious reorganization of government priorities is in order
and the spineless tories, contrary to their election rhetoric, don't
look like they are going to do it.


  Donald Acton