[muglo] Re: [muglo]<rant> VATs: was Re: USB 250-meg Zip with 10.3.9--Again!

Let's not forget that there are people who don't pay some taxes.  For  
example, persons of "Native Canadian" ancestry (or what ever the heck  
they want to be called) are able to avoid civic responsibilities and  
not pay PST.  It must be considered unjust to force these people to  
perform simple math while off the reserve and shopping to determine  
their 'discount'.  And even worse to ask them to pay now and formally  
request a refund later!  Heck, that is what I have to do with my  
income, why can't they...

And before there is a huge outcry, with people flaming me in anger,  
I'd just like to point out that I'm being discriminated against based  
on my ancestry, sex, sexual persuasion, religion and income.  I'm NOT  
able to claim any ethnic, sexual, religious, or financial  
distinctions that are in my favor.  Quite to the contrary!  Being a  
white heterosexual male of Catholic upbringing with a middle class  
income offers me no privileges, just responsibilities (even though my  
lineage does trace back to European and British aristocracy).  It  
wasn't me or any of my immediate relatives who may have treated the  
natives of this country in a potentially unjust fashion (how many  
years ago?) so why should I be paying continuing retributions?

What do I have to be bitter about?  Discrimination.  Plain and  
simple.  We claim that we've abolished discrimination in this fine  
country, yet we continue to discriminate for anyone who cries out.   
Bah!  Let's end discrimination once and for all!  We can start by  
lowering all the taxes while making the natives pay all taxes when  
making any transactions off the reserve.  And that is just the  
beginning...

Now THAT is a rant!
Dave

On 19-Nov-05, at 16:11, Martin Albinger wrote:

>
> On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:20 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>>
>> <rant>I don't understand why companies get hit with false advertising
>> suits/charges when they advertise an item for "$40 after rebate"  
>> when,
>> in fact they advertise the *before tax* purchase price, but then
>> subtract the full *after tax* rebate to compute the "rebated"  
>> purchase
>> price... that's false advertising
>
> Just reluctance on the apart of the consumer to complain.
>
>> ... of course, we're still so
>> backwards in Canada that we haven't figured out that it's much more
>> efficient to have taxes built into the prices rather than separate,
>> thereby requiring a whole extra layer of retail bureaucracy (and,  
>> this
>> is _not_ government imposed... there are stores which now have the
>> taxes in their retail prices)... the collective drain on the economy
>> is huge... all to satisfy a few tax payer assho... <ahem>
>> nutcases.</rant>
>
> I would much rather see the 'full' price as well.  I love watching
> parents explain to their kids that while that thingie is $9.95 they
> don't have enough with the $10 gran & gramps gave them because the
> taxes haven't been added in.  I have had overseas visitors who have
> found it rather annoying too!
>
> On the flip side there is the whole 'hidden' tax debate.  I love
> explaining % of % - raising the GST by 1% doesn't sound like much BUT
> it is an almost 15% increase (14.2 but 15 is such a nice round  
> number!)
> in the tax itself. On that flip side whether you pay a $1.07 vs $1.08
> the extra penny (dime or dollar) doesn't mean much to most people.  An
> extra $10 and up starts to have a more noticeable impact especially on
> lower incomes which then implies those pennies and dimes start to add
> up too. (Insert favourite folk wisdom here about pennies).
>
> Now there's something to talk about, the penny - I vote we get rid of
> it and round every thing DOWN to the nearest nickel!
>
> Martin
>
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