Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!ubc-cs!alberta!calgary!!steven
From: steven@.ucalgary.ca (Steven Leikeim)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: TAX REVOLT NOW!!
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Date: 11 Aug 89 04:19:15 GMT
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In article <6758@themepark.UUCP> jamest@cognos.UUCP (James H. Tinkess) writes:
>It infuriates me to no end that the government considers the middle class
>a endless source of capital for financing their relentless spending.
>Canada being the most overtaxed country in the western world, surely has
>had enough! 
>With taxes consuming over 50 percent of our income the time has come  for
>a tax revolt. Too much complacency has given the politicos the idea that

Are you sure that Canada is the most overtaxed country in the "western"
world. As I recall, in some of the scandanavian countries (e.g. Sweden)
the overall tax rate (Income, sales and other taxes) amounts to a total 
of about 95%. Unfortunately, I do not have any references handy to check
this out.

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>James H. Tinkess        "On the 8th day he documented"      
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