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People keep referring to welfare for unemployed as a tax burdon, everything 
in our society is a tax burdon, even the potholes in the streets, but money 
is set aside to take of these problems and sometimes it may be a temporary 
fix, but sometimes it cures the problem permanently.

The same problem arises with UIC, which of course is an insurance against 
losing your job or livelyhood, which ever you may call it.  The only 
problem I have with it is the duration of the benefits, especially when you 
look at what happened in the fisheries, when a lot of people were left 
without jobs, but instead of receiving UIC benefits they get a special 
benefit, which is suppose to help them adjust to a life without the 
fisheries and to allow them to be retrained into another field.  My only 
fault with this is that it is a five year plan and unlike other people who 
lose their jobs or livelyhood, who receive UIC, the benefits only last for 
a number of weeks based on the unemployment rate in the area in which you 
live, which at present is 44 weeks for Halifax/Dartmouth area.

So what other tax burdons can we discuss?

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jwilkins@ns.sympatico.ca