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In article <4c9l10$44b@sam.inforamp.net>, jim@crystalcntrl.com wrote:

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>However, having said this, sir what should be done with the many
>thousands of people now employed by such corporations? When these
>businesses shut their doors and the people have no paycheck to support
>them and their famlies? Please also include the often used multiplier
>effect of each high paying manufacturing job generating 3 to 4 spinoff
>jobs in the community.  
>

This is what I don't understand.  This is the argument being made by the 
Ontario government right now, and I wonder why we have to see things this 
way.  I mean, if everyone were employed, we could a) have the tax base upon 
which government could operate, and b) have enough people with enough income 
to purchase products or services being made by these companies.  While I 
realize that some products we make we will not buy all of (for example, 
automobiles, the majority of which head south), the majority of companies in 
Canada must be making products or selling services to Canadians, right?

So why is it that we feel the need to coddle these companies, give them tax 
incentives, give them cheap land, erase an environmental law here and there, 
and generally jack them off?  Why is it that the public must pay for the 
taxes that businesses no longer pay?

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Dave.

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Dave Haans
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