Xref: utzoo can.politics:2832 can.general:1829 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!lrbartram From: lrbartram@watcgl.waterloo.edu (lyn bartram) Newsgroups: can.politics,can.general Subject: Re: Nuremberg Laws (Was: Re: STOP Signs) Message-ID: <11754@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Date: 3 Oct 89 23:46:10 GMT References: <1989Sep6.222038.2707@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1178@mannix.iros1.UUCP> <7818@microsoft.UUCP><1147@zap.UUCP> <1170@zap.UUCP> Reply-To: lrbartram@watcgl.waterloo.edu (lyn bartram) Distribution: can Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 32 In article <1170@zap.UUCP> fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin) writes: > >The latest statistics I've seen put the overall tax load for Ontario >at about the same level as that for Quebec. Apparently, the Ontario >liberals have been raising taxes while their Quebec counterparts have >been fairly succesful at curbing the increases... (Would anybody have >any numbers to confirm/deny this? I heard this on a show on the economy >on Montreal radio. Though I don't think they meant simply the income tax.) All i can cite is my own experience. I moved to Ontario three years ago. Then i was a student; now i'm working. AS a student i found it *much* easier to live well in Montreal than in southern Ontario. Rents are significantly less, there's lots of free nifty things to do, car insurance is much cheaper. But i expected when my income rose drastically that i'd be happier to be here (fiscally speaking). Wrong! By the time i factor in OHIP for my husband and myself, car insurance, income tax, and sales tax, i'd come out better in Quebec than here. This is a radical change from five years ago. Note that i haven't included car insurance nor rent/cost of housing, since i realize there are other forces at work beyond provincial control. Perhaps my political outlook will change (now that i'm making money) and i would feel overburdened by taxes in Quebec as opposed to Alberta. I assert, however, that it is easier to live a nice lifestyle for proportionally less money in Montreal than in most other cities in the country (and i've lived all over). Moreover, although one poster called Quebec "over-socialistic", it is the only province which guarantees freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation, the rights of children, the rights of women (including the most liberal abortion policy in the country) and actively promotes consumer protection. THHIS POSTING IS NOT ABOUT WHAT IT DOES TO MY RIGHTS AS AN ANGLOPHONE, OK??? I just wanted to show that while the scales tip wildly in my home province, they do not always go in the *wrong* way.