Both of you are bigger and
better
You been talking to my gf haven't you?
lol
Both of you are bigger and
better
again, good case for consumer tax, aka gas tax, which is MORE then enough to pay for roads bridges etc. I'm down with that
quit sticking your fingers in my personal and corporate income tho, its not yours.
we need some form of tax yes, to make things work, but when its taken off your pay cheque, its not longer a tax its theft.
Actually it is the life blood of SOME civilisations. Those are the ones that pay oligarchs, dictators, etc. to have them interfere in people's lives.OK, so you are not opposed to all taxation, now we are getting somewhere. Whether we should tax income or consumption is a very complex argument, with proponents on both sides, and that is a separate issue.
It is just that both you and JLM seem to trash taxation in general, so I had to enlighten you. Taxation is far from evil, it is the life blood of civilization.
huh?Take the Hint while it's still a Hint. Enough already.
huh?
aaahhh a bunch deleted. ty.Long story. The highlights are that Kryptic says one thing, does another. Cannuck calls him on it. Kyptic calls him a dip****. Ron deletes everything.
Now you are up to speed.
I'll go along with that. Wages should NOT be taxed, Bonuses to C.E.O.s could be taxed double to offset the loss of income tax. Consumer tax is good, especially for commodities like Rolls Royces and Lamborginis, yachts over 40', wine over $50 a bottle. Seriously if all (non food) articles were taxed, we could make up our own minds what we want to buy. I'm not even sure we could completely eliminate income tax but I'll bet if a political party could cut it in half, they'd never have to campaign again to get elected.
No I don't trash taxation in general. I don't mind contributing for fire protection, police protection, public library etc. but that's not where the vast majority of it goes. I'm sick and tired to subsidizing drones and parasites at the troughs in Victoria and Ottawa.
That may be your view, JLM. But people in general don’t agree with that, they want government to provide all kinds of services. As I said in my previous post, if a party offers tax cuts, sure people will take it, but when the party tries to do corresponding service cuts, they will face stiff, probably insurmountable opposition.
In fact, it is the same in USA, as Bush found out to his cost, when he tried to privatize Social Security. Democrats rolled him even from the minority position in the Congress; they were able to prevent Bush from privatizing Social Security.
So what is the government there for?
Primarily to enact legislation and secondarily to be a watch dog, particularly
so marginalized people don't get abused. NOT to engage in business better handled by experts in the field.
JLM - "Primarily to enact legislation and secondarily to be a watch dog, particularly
so marginalized people don't get abused. NOT to engage in business better handled by experts in the field."
I agree JLM ...Unless of course those businesses run us all into the ground then recieve trillions in bailouts from their buddy politicians of the backs of the hard working people(slave drones) ..due to lack of regulations and oversight..
Big Biz ..Big Government ...Same dif...
Exactly, if gov't didn't waste so much, people wouldn't mind paying taxes so much.Yep, that's where we are in trouble in this country today, people do want all kinds of services and they want the Gov't. to provide and Gov't. is the least efficient provider of anything.