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Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills

#138
From: Bruce Jonathan Schuck
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 17:37
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jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:

>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.

Other taxes? Certainly you don't mean to count taxes paid by people
who use public transit?

>>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.

Maybe. 

>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.

Your taxes will be high because the Tories offloaded corporate income
taxes onto individual income taxes and it is unlikely to go down.
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"We've got to get bigger guns" -- Dick Durkin                  schuck@sfu.ca
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From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills
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