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Article #32Re: Canada and Quebec (was: REFERENDUM '92)
From: der Mouse
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 09:14
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 09:14
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In article <1992Nov6.223952.25408@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>, thomas@McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Thomas Jelonek) writes: > Personally, direct democracy always makes me nervous. Especially, > given the types of questions that are often asked. For example, I > suspect that if a referendum would be held on having a flat tax rate > of 10% it would pass, with most people ignoring the impact such a > vote would have on society. And what impact do you believe it would have? I think a flat tax rate would be an enormous improvement over the mess we have now, though I don't know how reasonable 10% is as a rate. But I would point out that such things are self-correcting. I recall hearing of some proposition that passed in California which was such a thing - it sounded good at first, but had sufficiently bad effects that it was very shortly repealed... der Mouse mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!olivea!charnel!sifon!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!mouse From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) Newsgroups: socs.misc,alt.canada,soc.canada,alt.politics.canada,mcgill.general,soc.culture.canada,can.politics Subject: Re: Canada and Quebec (was: REFERENDUM '92) Message-ID: <1992Nov7.091428.17233@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Date: 7 Nov 92 09:14:28 GMT References: <14052@elevia.uniforum.qc.ca> <1992Nov6.223952.25408@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines Lines: 21