Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!ubc-ean!ubc-cs!acton From: acton@ubc-cs.UUCP (Donald Acton) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Tax Freedom Day Message-ID: <1121@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 03:41:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.1121 Posted: Tue Jun 25 03:41:29 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 20:43:16 EDT Reply-To: acton@ubc-cs.UUCP (Donald Acton) Distribution: can Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 18 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