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- From: jstewart@alfred.carleton.ca (John Stewart)
- Subject: Re: Deficit, Deficit, who's got the Deficit? was: NDP "communism?"
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- Organization: Carleton University
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:05:19 GMT
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- In <C1Epw1.IAH@mach1.wlu.ca> dmccrea6@mach1.wlu.ca (doug mccready F) writes:
- >Well, I have just explained where his comments are wrong. Sorry, the federal
- >government has a formula based on tax revenues for equlaization grants - it
- >has a formula for EPF and they have not changed the formula. The formula
- >works to hepl poorer provinces but Ontario still does not qualify. There is
- >sympathy and the numbers aren't fixed in stone - the formula is. Therefore,
- >you are wrong and RAe cannot be supported.
- >
- >The formula for equalization is based on the tax collections of 29 revenue
- >sources (see my textbook for the 29 taxes) and measures it against the
- >potential revenues if the base was average to determine what the payment
- >will be - Ontario does not qualify.
-
- Whatever statistics you can pull out of a hat to show that Ontario is
- still a rich province don't change the reality that my wife and I
- see when we look at our family budget. Inspite of an above average
- income there is nothing left after we pay our taxes, the mortgage, and
- other basic expenses (food, clothing, heat, lighting). We are just
- praying that the car lasts another three years at which point the children
- will be in school and my wife can get a job. Our situation is by
- no means unique, many families in Ontario have had their budgets
- stretched to the breaking point by tax increases -- primarily Federal
- tax increases. It's a myth that Ontario is still rich enough
- to subsidize the poorer provinces.
-
- I think the problem is that your fancy equilization formula doesn't
- take into account the higher expenses of living in Ontario. We
- would need a lot less money to attain the same livestyle in one of
- the porrer provinces.
- --
- John Stewart -- Computing and Communications Services, Carleton University
- Internet: jstewart@ccs.carleton.ca or Mr.Canoehead@algonquin.carleton.ca
- "The average middle income family with two parents and children pays $2,945
- more in Federal taxes than they would have under the tax policies in place
- before the Tories first came to power in 1984."
-