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- From: klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen)
- Subject: Re: Happy New Year (DSY!)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.201657.13462@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. CANADA
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 20:16:57 GMT
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- Dave Shariff Yadallee <yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> writes:
- >ramirez@julia.math.ucla.edu (Alice Ramirez) writes:
- >- May your one-dollars be made of paper once again.
- >Also, a purging of the GST is on my mind.
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- A double "NO!". The loonie, when coupled with a $2 bill, is far superior for
- small transactions, than a mitt-full of crumpled, dirty, ragged, $1 bills.
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- The "visible" GST is much preferable to the "invisible" MST.
- All Canadians want "lower taxes" (TM) and "no deficits" (TM).
- Unfortunately, they're incompatible!
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