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From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen)
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Subject: Re: TAX REVOLT NOW!!
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Date: 12 Aug 89 06:02:34 GMT
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In-reply-to: rwwetmore@grand.waterloo.edu's message of 11 Aug 89 17:17:59 GMT

In article <28307@watmath.waterloo.edu> rwwetmore@grand.waterloo.edu (Ross Wetmore) writes:

     The lack of fiscal responsibility in demands made of government, and in
   the way in which governments are elected is directly attributable to the
   attitudes of the populace at large.
     Looking for a way to avoid the bills and sidestep the underlying problems
   seems equally irresponsible. If a dose of responsibility in the form of
   excessive taxes is required to shock the populace into some awareness of
   what is going on, then perhaps it will not be such a bad thing.

I agree that it would be ideal to "shock" the populace into awareness,
but surely there is a better way than to tax them to excess.  How
about educating them?  Would that work?  Not likely.  Would they
really listen to you if you asked them to stop taking advantage of
their voting power or their friends at Parliament Hill?

Sure it's "shirking my duty" if I decide to avoid a large tax bill --
or is it?  What exactly *IS* my duty?  Must I spend my life trying to
educate the uneducated?  When can I stop trying?  Must I swallow a
large tax bill while I'm trying to educate people?  Or should I reduce
my tax bill if I can, and then perhaps try to educate people as I go
along?  

Or should I try to educate at all?  Just what can one person
accomplish, in light of his having to face (at every step of the way)
controversy, emotional arguments, and just plan ignorance?  Maybe if I
became Minister of Finance I could change things, or if I had his
ear...  But in the meantime, thanks but no thanks, I'll look out for
myself and maybe try to convince the people around me.
--
Kim Nguyen 					kim@watsup.waterloo.edu
Systems Design Engineering  --  University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada