Newsgroups: can.general
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: TAX REVOLT NOW!!
Message-ID: <1989Aug13.000459.27775@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6758@themepark.UUCP> <6761@ulysses.UUCP> <6763@cognos.UUCP>  <28307@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 89 00:04:59 GMT

In article <28307@watmath.waterloo.edu> rwwetmore@grand.waterloo.edu (Ross Wetmore) writes:
>... Under a regime in which the people have
>no say in their government, it might be justifiable to blame government
>greed for excessive taxation. But in Canada, government policy is a reflection
>of the will of the people, at least as portrayed by the pollsters, pressure
>groups and media which are trying to mould it into their own shape.

That's a big "at least".  The fact is, the government does not hesitate to
ignore the will of the people on issues like capital punishment, where
it considers the will of the people misguided.  (I will not address the
issue of whether this view is correct.)  The people really have very little
control over the doings of the government, especially since the two major
parties -- one of which invariably gets in -- are Tweedledee and Tweedledum
and seldom differ in important ways.
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