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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Take your money back
Via RonPaulForPresident2008.com and Takeyourmoneyback.com:
Posted by Omar Abu Hatem on December 30, 2008 | Permalink
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Taxation is the root of all evil! :)
If the rates are that high in the US, can you imagine what percentage of your income goes to be squandered here in Canada?
The one thing governments want is more power and control. And it stands to reason that affluent, educated, armed people are difficult to control, right?
So tax them (literally) to death, dumb them down with socialist Dogma in the schools and disarm them...et Voila! Sheep, much easier to control and manipulate.
Obviously a certain amount of taxation is required to maintain an infrastructure, and just as obviously we are taxed far beyond what is required to maintain that infrastrucure.
We are being robbed blind and the future's of our children look bleak indeed.
Posted by: JC | 2008-12-31 8:55:41 AM
Obviously a certain amount of taxation is required to maintain an infrastructure, and just as obviously we are taxed far beyond what is required to maintain that infrastrucure.
Posted by: JC | 2008-12-31 8:55:41 AM
Since it's so obvious, what rate should we be taxed at? What formula do you intend to use, tax revenue as percentage of GDP, income / consumption tax only? Something else? Give us the numbers.
Posted by: The Stig | 2008-12-31 9:15:11 AM
You and your completely statist approach to life can go hang yourself Stig. I don't argue with Statist Scum.
Posted by: JC | 2008-12-31 9:37:04 AM
You and your completely statist approach to life can go hang yourself Stig. I don't argue with Statist Scum.
Posted by: JC | 2008-12-31 9:37:04 AM
I wasn't looking for an argument with you but merely the numbers which were are so obvious. What is obvious however is that you don't have a clue what you're talking about. Have a nice day.
Posted by: The Stig | 2008-12-31 9:54:00 AM
...one thing talking to a neighbour living in the States, while personal taxation is lower, their property tax is a lot higher.
For the same size of house I'm paying $1700 here, he's paying $9000 in Vermont.
Plus if he was American living here, he'd have to pay taxes back home, but granted they are lower, so moot point.
He also has to pay a car tax, some other tax and so on to drive his car, EVERY year.
One thing I did say, while his property tax is higher, our gas taxes are high, so basically it compensates for the car and property tax.
But without taxes we wouldn't have the roads and lifestyles we live with.
Necessary evil I guess eh JC ;-)
Posted by: tomax7 | 2008-12-31 10:43:21 AM
Necessary evil I guess eh JC ;-)
Posted by: tomax7 | 2008-12-31 10:43:21 AM
Agreed. And I think I did say so.
But there is obviously far too much pork in taxation that again obviously goes to waste.
That's "our" money, tomax. And I'm not agreeable to having it poured down the drain.
On another thread here recently someone started compiling a list of all the unnecessary government bureacracies that we pay for.
There were plenty, and they would be a good place to start cutting away the pork.
Posted by: JC | 2008-12-31 11:52:23 AM
...we could start with Official Bilingualism.
Posted by: tomax7 | 2008-12-31 1:38:54 PM
...we could start with Official Bilingualism.
Posted by: tomax7 | 2008-12-31 1:38:54 PM
Too funny. That was actually my first thought too.
Then support for the arts...
Posted by: JC | 2008-12-31 5:07:11 PM
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