Monday, September 22, 2008

Shifty Logic Subverts Shift

Read the following line published on cbc.ca :

It would be "law of the land" that every penny of the $40 billion raised in the Green Shift's carbon taxes would be returned to Canadians in the form of tax breaks, Dion said.

This begs the question if every penny taxed is to be returned to "Canadians", why bother collecting the tax in the first place?

I'm just sayin...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hahahaha. Well said. Perfect. Checkmate!

Reid said...

Because the wealth needs to be redistributed from the West to the East.

Anonymous said...

Not just West to East but from middle class to the poor!!! What is the gain in a 1% income tax cut if my expenses on day to day life has a potential of increasing by 5% to 10% or more of my after tax income ? And think Gun Registry of the size and cost of beaurocracy this make work program will create, does anyone know how much this will cost to administer this ?