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From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Indexing
Message-ID: <1130@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 18:33:45 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 30 18:33:45 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 04:42:04 EDT
References: <679@lsuc.UUCP>
Reply-To: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
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Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Summary: 

In article <679@lsuc.UUCP> msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
>And in particular, so that people would not complain about the loss of
>3 percentage points of INCOME TAX bracket indexing.  As long as we
>continue to have inflation at 3% or over, which is probably for a long
>time, this change will imply an automatic increase in real tax rates
>... every year.
>
>This is what we used to have before the tax system was reformed about 1972,
>and I for one am angry at seeing this condition return, even in a limited form.

Yep, it sure worked! We  heard zero  protest about the
partial de-indexing of income tax. Seems like the PCs are just like
the Liberals when it comes to hitting the middle class for more
money. 

So make that two of us who aren't too pleased about the latest
money grab.

J.B. Robinson

(Anyone know how programmers can get a piece of the action in the 
underground economy? :-)