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- From: marc@tanda.isis.org (Marc Thibault)
- Newsgroups: can.politics
- Subject: Re: UI Benfits Cut
- Message-ID: <925106462DN5.61R@tanda.isis.org>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 01:30:55 EST
- References: <BzntHz.DzG@mach1.wlu.ca> <derry.725061307@sfu.ca> <Bzpo3x.E4u@mach1.wlu.ca> <1992Dec23.235045.5253@sol.UVic.CA>
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- In article <1992Dec23.235045.5253@sol.UVic.CA>
- (Dennis Manke) writes:
-
- > Why should taxes rise? Currently there is a whole lot of people
- > (self employed) who get away without paying for UIC which as you
- > have recognized is a welfare system and not an insurance.
-
- You gloss over a very important point: Self-employed people
- don't _pay_ UIC because they can't _collect_ UIC. I paid UIC
- for twenty five years so that a bunch of Newfie fishermen
- could play kick-the-dog for half of every year. Now I'm
- self-employed and it doesn't matter whether I've got any money
- coming in or not, there's no way I'll ever benefit from the
- thousands of dollars I've kicked into the system. What I've
- never been able to figure out is how a fisherman gets to be
- classified as other than self-employed.
-
- As to welfare: did you catch the response of the "Somali
- community leader" after nine Somali "refugees" were caught
- cheating the welfare system? He said it was a terrible shame,
- and that these people would have "to learn to live on what the
- government gives them; just like every other Canadian."
-
- This happened a few weeks after a half dozen West Indians
- arrived at Pearson and the first thing they asked the
- immigration agent was if one of them could use the phone. When
- the agent asked if they wanted to contact friends, they said
- no, they wanted to contact the lady who had their money. As it
- turns out, what they had on a well-worn slip of paper was the
- number of a welfare office and the name of one of the workers.
-
- Seems to me that if we put a little less into welfare, Canada
- wouldn't be so attractive to the world's freeloaders.
-
- Cheers,
- Marc
-
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