Hi MLF

I am with you on all of it, I didn't ask for this election, and it sucks that we have to go to the polls in January, and they wander why voter turnout is so low in this Country???

Oh the gas $0.989 here in Halifax.... Excise Tax is .1000 (10 cents) provincial Fuel Tax is 0.1550 (15 1/2 cents) so for $0.989 you back out the HST/GST at 1.15 = .86 Cents per litre, take off the taxes .2550 = leaves .6100 this is what the companies make per litre and right now the cost for the Oil companies is at .5140 Per litre, so their margin is almost .10 cents per litre, the overall taxes charged including HST/GST = .3840 which is less then half of the $0.989 so the part the Gov't really likes is the HST/GST...I am not defending them in any way, but I think both are to blame for the high costs of Gas (collusion).

The Hospital issue is starting to have an effect down here as 4 Surgery room Nurses just jumped ship and got hired on at a private clinic, so now the Hospital has to delay already delayed surgeries to find replacements, there will be two tier medical issues in this Country before long.


As for Income Tax, this tax was supposedly to be dropped after the war, as it was instigated to offset the costs of the War. But as with every politician who has fed at the trough, it will never be dropped, just like the HST/GST, this is easy money for the politicians, how else can they so proudly boast surpluses each year, and yet our services are all underfunded, as well they can throw my money at Quebec (we are still paying for the 76 Olympics)ref Sponsorship Scandal.The EI fund is way over funded, yet there has never been any adjustments to help out the Unemployed (increased benefits etc).

On the Military I will differ with you, as long as we have troops in harms way, they had better have the equipment to do thier jobs and to protect them, no amount of my taxes is enough to ensure they all come home alive.............(they can find welfare monies for the illigal immigrants living in Toronto which in some cases are Muslims or are related to Somalian Warlords, yet they allow our troops to drive around in a crappy vehicle... illitis jeep, which would lose a head on with a Mini Miner)

The other problem is the underhanded way they increase taxes through "fees", instead of raising the vehicle registration via a certain percentage they will add a new fee to obtaining it, say $29.99 to have the privilage of walking in and having a silly servant talk to you. Also the Medical people are quick to add fees for services I always thought were covered by our plans, if you notice recently most Medical Plans like Blue Cross are increasing the premiums and at the same time cutting what is covered and what is being reduced, such as "generic" drugs as opposed to name brands...

Dental care, each year they drop the eligibility age, their reasoning of course is that Dental Health is so much better nowadays, so just when your child is in most need of Dental they drop the age at which the Province will cover it, SOL......

I just had my Taxes reassesed for the 2002-2003 years because the company I work for had an audit done this summer, and lo and behold,because the company did not declare RRSP income on our T4's we got dinged, and the Gov't expects me to pay the interest for those 2 years, by Dec 28,....Bah Humbug..........they will get it when I am good and ready to give it to them, I have been paying taxes for over 30yrs, steady, so they can cut me some slack right, no they will come after me for every penny, but yet they allow the idiots like the Bronfmans to send their money offshore so they can avoid their share of taxes, or K.C. Iriving, or spend over a Billion on a stupid Firearms registry.............ack phhhtt....it's enough to make you cry or vote for the Mary Jane party, they could do no worse right??