From: 4224_5201@uwovax.uwo.ca (John LaRocque)
Subject: Communist Progressive Tax System (was Re: Liberal Party Tax Policy)
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:52:40 GMT

In article <C1F6qD.DBI@ecf.toronto.edu>, pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:

>  The reason a sales tax or a GST is said no not be based on ability to pay
>is that it is a regressive rather than a progressive tax.  People with higher
>incomes pay a larger percentage of their income for income tax;  this progress
>ive system is essential to a mildly socialist state like Canada.  A GST,
>however, forces everybody, regardless of income, to pay the same amount every
>time they buy something.  For poorer people, this translates to a higher 
>percentage of their income;  at the very least, disregarding the fact that 
>richer people invest far more than poorer people, it is a flat-rate tax.  A
>graduated income tax fulfills the principles of equalization much better than
>a sales tax.


A graduated income tax goes against the very principal of equality. Here
is an example of an ideal tax system (if there ever were one).

Neil earns $300 dollars, Bob earns $600 dollars. Fairness demands that the
state not interfere with Bob's paycheque simply because he earns more.
Besides, that's communism.

Now, if there were a tax, it wouldn't interfere with the relationship
with Neil and Bob. City Hall wants to opay the police force.
The mayor says : "Bob, you earned more money, but it is not our right
to punish you in the name of 'equality'. After all, you earned that
money, and you shouldn't be punished for that! Our city needs people
like you........". Hence, the Wise mayor extracts 10% from both Neil
and Bob, and in the end, Bob still clears twice what Neil made.

That is justice. That is fairness. That is equality. And anybody who says
otherwise is a communist.

That being said, there ARE advantages to a sales tax. The mayor wants
to build a new road. Both Neil and Bob use the road an equivalent 
amount of time. The mayor says "since you BOTH use the road a lot,
I am charging both of you $10 apiece to get it paved".

Now this too is justice. This is fairness. This is equality. And anybody
who says otherwise is a communist.

And then there is that other town, the communist one. It is poor because
the Mayor charged taxes and punished all the people who wanted to make
money with evil communistic progressive taxes. The higher wage earners
fought back at first and got a few loopholes to avoid paying some of the
taxes. But the evil mayor wanted more, so these wise people packed up
there bags and moved to the town where Neil and Bob lived, where City
Hall didn't punish them for earning more money then other people and
where there is real justice, fairness and equality.

And anybody who believes in "income redistribution", "more equitable
distribution of wealth" etc is a communist. When I make MY first 
million, it will be in a country where they do not punish success.
A country that cannot abide progressive communistic pinko leftist
NsDaP-Socialist tax policies like those that the good people of 
Canada have to deal with. Canada - a loser nation because it 
punishes success.

(ever hear about the "brain drain"? This is the nonsense that started
it all. Politicians are TOO STUPID or TOO MORALISTIC to figure out
that you don't kick people in the ass to make them stay in Canada)

John.
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