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Article #138Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills
From: Bruce Jonathan Schuck
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 17:37
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. -- ============================================================================ "We've got to get bigger guns" -- Dick Durkin schuck@sfu.ca ============================================================================
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Newsgroups: bc.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!van-bc!cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!sfu.ca!schuck From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck) Subject: Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills Message-ID: <schuck.721244245@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <1d947tINN4j3@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <1992Nov5.081634.5316@ee.ubc.ca> <schuck.720981803@sfu.ca> <1992Nov8.061043.6264@ee.ubc.ca> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 17:37:25 GMT Lines: 41