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To: badturd who wrote (11061)	11/4/2006 11:52:25 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217750

It is a bad thing, from the Canadian government point of view, because then all of Canada's oil and gas assets would have avoided corporate taxation.

To: badturd who wrote (11061)	11/4/2006 2:42:06 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217750

People love Big Brother [Big Sister in NZ's case]. Stockholm Syndrome is normal - people LIKE being told what to do since most of them haven't a clue and prefer following orders. It's frustrating for the rest of us, who would rather run our own lives than be dragged down into the morass. Your mistake is to think that people don't know what's going on. < What democratic governments fear most, is that economically illiterate voters will discover the true cost of government, and who really pays. Corporate taxation is pablum for illiterates who can't seem to understand that all corporate taxation is passed on to the consumer. The financially illiterate voter must always be baffled with bull shit, and happy stories of someone else paying their taxes.> They do know what's going on and they like it. They get free roads, hospitals and so on, compliments of the productive half of the community. The productive are like mice, who love to run in a wheel, pushed by their DNA. The unproductive get a generator hooked up to the wheel and loaf around while the worker mice generate the electricity. It's a form of slavery, and citizenship is just state serfdom. But people go on voting for more of it decade after decade, so it's obviously what they want. Libertarian parties around the world sit near 0.5% support. That's in the "freedom-loving" countries. In the others, the DNA was killed off long ago. Any inkling of it is beaten out of people. In New Zealand, they gaol people who think they are free and act on it. Mqurice