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- From: golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy)
- Subject: Re: Liberal Party Tax Policy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.123205.21600@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
- References: <61TVXB3w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> <1993Jan24.162919.24275@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1993Jan24.230738.975@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:32:05 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.230738.975@news.columbia.edu> gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) writes:
- >golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy) writes:
- >>yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee) writes:
- >>>
- >>>3) review of the tax system with the purpose of abolishing the GST
- >>>and redistributing the tax burden on the PRINCIPLE of fairness,
- >>>equity ad ability to pay.
- >>
- >>That is not a policy...the GST raises $20 billion dollars...specifically
- >>tell us how the Liberal Party is going to raise $20 billion dollars.
- >
- >Even Jean Chretien, embarking on his western tour, said that the tax
- >income must be accounted for in one way or another ... I just can't
- >believed that people up north will fall for a shell game removing the
- >GST and placing the tax same somewhere else. The merits of the GST
- >have been that (theoretically) with the substitution for the wholesale
- >tax that was hidden, consumers would have a truer sticker price ...
- >and, manufacturers won't have to "advance" the wholesale tax payments
- >to the federal government and then receive credits for the exported
- >portion later. The free price hike that some retailers and some
- >wholesalers/distributors took with the arrival of the GST demonized
- >it, but I still find it hard to think that people would hide their
- >heads in the sand and fall for a hidden GST.
- >
-
- Chretien is trying his best to exactly succeed at this shell game...
- in all of his year end interviews, he kept saying that he couldn't
- be specific because he didn't even know how much money the GST was
- bringing in...even though the Finance Department publishes them
- at least quarterly...and the simple fact is that the order of
- magnitude of the tax, and of any replacement tax is known.
-
- The Liberals are being fundamentally dishonest on the tax issue, which
- is why they don't deserve to be elected...the same goes for the NDP.
-
- The Tories, Reform, and the National Party are not really attractive
- alternatives, but each is at least unambiguously clear on tax policy.
-
- Gerald
-
-