Path: utzoo!censor!becker!ziebmef!stephen
From: stephen@ziebmef.uucp (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: TAX REVOLT NOW!!
Summary: How do we revolt?
Keywords: our tax burden is revolting ... why aren't we?
Message-ID: <1989Aug13.220446.2604@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 14 Aug 89 02:04:45 GMT
References: <6758@themepark.UUCP> <1989Aug10.194101.23329@lsuc.on.ca>
Reply-To: stephen@ziebmef.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn)
Distribution: can
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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In article <1989Aug10.194101.23329@lsuc.on.ca> jim@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Mercer) writes:
$
$one thing i love about someone screaming "tax revolt" is:
$
$just how do we revolt against the taxation?

   Well, certainly refusing to pay taxes won't get us very far (actually, it'll
get us into jail, which will increase the tax burden and decrease the number
of people who are available to pay it, thereby causing general taxation to rise
at an even more alarming rate, perhaps leading eventually to the entire country
either being incarcerated or taking up arms ... nah, not worth the hardship)

   What we _can_ do is get up off our backsides and make the government so
uncomfortable (and threaten to do the same for any future government that
tries to overtax us) that they'll have no choice but to find some more
sensible way to cut the deficit (I'm sure that amongst the minds reading
this newsgroup, we could come up with many such schemes that would benefit
the country as a whole).  Is this likely to happen?  No.  Why?  We're
Canadians, prone to a life of peacefully accepting whatever the government
choses to do to us, complaining a little and then sitting back and taking
it.



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