Many believe aboriginal people don't pay enough taxes

Quote: Originally Posted by Machjo

Well, they always have the option of rescinding our Treaties and giving the land back, I suppose.

Quote: Originally Posted by PoliticalNick

There is of course the other option of rescinding the treaties and telling the to go f*ck themselves. They could always try to have a war for the land but I don't like their chances.

Quote: Originally Posted by Machjo

I agree. We can always ignore agreements when we have the upper hand. Just don't count on anyone wanting to sign agreeemnts with us ever again.

Quote: Originally Posted by PoliticalNick

I didn't sign anything to begin with and really don't know why I should be on the hook for events that are centuries old.

It is high time we shut down the gravy train. What we have is the great-great grandchildren (or however many generations it is now) of those who came here and claimed the land paying the great great grandchildren of those who lost the land in a war. I don't get it. No other defeated nation has had a free ride for so long in fact most through history got sweet FA.

Quote: Originally Posted by Machjo

So if you sign a contract with the government, and the government decides to not fulfil its side of the contract, don't come crying to me because I didn't sign it. And besides, why should my taxes pay for a contract I didn't sign, right?

Also, they were not defeated. They signed treaties and we stabbed them in the back. That's not the same as being defeated.

Quote: Originally Posted by PoliticalNick

I would never sign a contract with a govt, any govt.

I agree, we shouldn't pay taxes for something we had no part of.

They signed treaties to avoid complete anihilation, the Europeans let them to avoid wiping them out completely.

Quote: Originally Posted by PoliticalNick

There is of course the other option of rescinding the treaties and telling the to go f*ck themselves. They could always try to have a war for the land but I don't like their chances.

Quote: Originally Posted by Machjo

If no one ever signed contracts with the government, we'd have no government. We'd have anarchy.

Quote: Originally Posted by PoliticalNick

No other defeated nation has had a free ride for so long in fact most through history got sweet FA.

Quote: Originally Posted by PoliticalNick

I would never sign a contract with a govt, any govt.

Quote: Originally Posted by CDNBear

Do you have a drivers license?

Quote: Originally Posted by PoliticalNick

No we wouldn't. We can still have order and sign contracts among ourselves.

I do believe in a very limited govt both in scope of power and size but they need to be 100% accountable personally to the people they represent.

Quote: Originally Posted by Machjo

How does the government hire anyone without signing a contract? Who would build the infrastructure? Just ourselves of our own free will? In other words, you're essentially defining anarchy.

Quote: Originally Posted by petros

A new poll suggests more than 60 per cent of Saskatchewan people believe aboriginal people don't pay enough taxes.

The University of Saskatchewan's Social Sciences Research Lab asked a question on that subject as part of a survey of 1,750 people March 5-19.

The Taking the Pulse survey found that 36.7 per cent of people strongly agree with the following statement: "Aboriginal people do not pay enough taxes in Saskatchewan."

Another 26.7 per cent somewhat agree with that statement.

A smaller portion either somewhat disagree (13.9 per cent) or strongly disagree (9.9 per cent) that aborginal people don't pay enough taxes.

The survey asked 60 questions, including several dealing with aboriginal issues.

More than any other question, the one on aboriginal taxation generated the most "Don't know" responses: 11.7 per cent. Another 1.1 per cent refused to answer the question.

The Taking the Pulse project is a collaboration of the U of S, CBC, the StarPhoenix and the Leader-Post. With a sample size of 1,750, the poll is considered accurate to within 2.34 per cent, 19 times out of 20.

Quote: Originally Posted by Cannuck

Contrary to some, contracts are not sacred.

Quote: Originally Posted by Machjo

How does the government hire anyone without signing a contract? Who would build the infrastructure? Just ourselves of our own free will? In other words, you're essentially defining anarchy.

Quote: Originally Posted by The Old Medic

Sadly, Saskatchewan has the highest percentage of racists in all of Canada.

Quote: Originally Posted by PoliticalNick

I would never sign a contract with a govt, any govt.

Quote: Originally Posted by PoliticalNick

Just because I don't support the oversize & overreaching centralized big-brother govt we have today does not me I am an anarchist. Most things could be accomplished within communities with more support at a better price if we were left to it.

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

I didn't realize taxes were levied according to race! (But then again there is a mentality running rampant here that thinks taxes should be levied according to age...........increasing by 5% for each year over 60, after all they've been slack all their lives and never contributed ever)

Quote: Originally Posted by Machjo

Actually, they're not levied according to race. Owing to mixed marriages, some status Indians might be white, some might even look Chinese (owing to many Indian-Chinese marriages on the West-Coast, etc.). Also, not all Indians are status Indians owing to the Enfranchisement Act. This is based not on race, but nationality. Just as Canadian citizens don't pay US taxes so Indians don't pay Canadian taxes on-reserve since they are recognized as possessing their own nationality.

Now thanks to the Indian Act, indigenous Canadians are prohibited from welcoming new members; it's the Canadian government that controls indigenous citizenships to a significant degree. As a result, naturally immigrants from around the world integrate into Canadian as opposed to indigenous nations, thus giving a false impression that somehow we're universal and they're racial, when in reality, it's our laws that have usurped theirs.

Quote: Originally Posted by PoliticalNick

If they are their own nation then they should have their own currency and tax system to pay for their own way. This idea of a separate nation that gets the entirety of funding for anything from Canada and its taxpayers is ludicrous. They want to be independent fine, let them be independent not leeches.


Why shouldn't we stop their citizenship from growing? Since we pay for every one of their citizens it is in our best interest to minimize the number of people we have to support.
Our laws should usurp theirs. This land was conquered and claimed a few hundred years ago. I never read anything in the history books about one native tribe conquering another and then supporting them in perpetuity. No, when one tribe defeated another they eradicated that tribe completely to ensure future generations would not try to take back the conquered lands. Survivors were assimilated or killed off.