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Article #134Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills
From: John Paul Morrison
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 06:10
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 06:10
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In article <schuck.720981803@sfu.ca> Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes: >jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes: > >>Because it's an underhanded way to slip in an indirect charge, and 99% of >>people don't complain? > >>things should be fee-for-service, pay for what you get, and get what you pay >>for. > >I agree 100% and I hope they introduce Toll roads for all the people >driving cars and polluting the air. > but only on roads that our gasoline and other taxes haven't already paid for. >I also hope they up the tuition to the full cost of an education at >places like UBC. That means a 500% increase. > Yes, it would be nice to know how much an education really costs. Currently we pay a low, subsidized tuition but after graduation the taxes I'll pay will outstrip the value of our education and health system. So yes, I'll take higher up-front tuition fees if that means my tax rate goes down to about 15 to 25% when I am working. >-- >============================================================================ >"We've got to get bigger guns" -- Dick Durkin schuck@sfu.ca >============================================================================ -- __________________________________________________________________________ John Paul Morrison | University of British Columbia, Canada | Electrical Engineering | .sig file without a cause jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca VE7JPM | ________________________________________|_________________________________
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Newsgroups: bc.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!van-bc!cs.ubc.ca!fs1.ee.ubc.ca!jmorriso From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) Subject: Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills Message-ID: <1992Nov8.061043.6264@ee.ubc.ca> Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering References: <1d947tINN4j3@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <1992Nov5.081634.5316@ee.ubc.ca> <schuck.720981803@sfu.ca> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 06:10:43 GMT Lines: 40