Some economists say the tax cut agenda is fueled by the super rich. Tax cuts make more investment dollars available to prop up the stock market bubble and allow stock indexes to keep rising. Since the large media outlets in Canada are mainly tools of the super rich you can expect that they will continue to push the tax cut agenda. And hide the fact that Cuts are Cuts. Tax cuts eventually must also be cuts to social programs and to citizens and the benefits they expect of a democracy.
   In the past the federal deficit was grossly exaggerated through incorrect government accounting. Now the Finance Department has introduced capital budgeting. A more realistic and lower government deficit is achieved by capital budgeting, but it has only been brought in to justify tax cuts and the fees the government charges. William Krehm says it reflects the invasion of market ideology into the public sector. 
   A new USA report from Janice C. Shields and the Interhemispheric Resource Center/Institute for Policy Studies reveals that 167 billion is spent yearly in Corporate Welfare there. So we really have to wonder just how much these Corporate Welfare Bums want? 
   The answer is that they want the whole store. They have become a new breed of parasite called the Tax Cut Welfare Bum. They are addicted to tax cuts, using them as a lazy man's way to prop up investments and industry. Pushing for the gobbling up of all public assets is the only thing they can do, just as when a junkie robs a store, it is the only thing he can do.
   The latest poll done by the federal liberals says Canadians want Ottawa to do more for the environment and the homeless. There isn't a big push for tax cuts, that push comes from Biznocrat politicians in all of the political parties and the Chamber of Commerce. Some other business lobby groups are known to be running fleets of computers that churn out pro tax cut letters and mail them to politicians.
   Real citizens have become so discouraged that they do not expect any improvements will be made for the poor and the homelessness or for them. They know that tax cuts are the new love of politicians and that there is a solid reason for this. With tax cuts as your policy you can get elected and do nothing for four years. Tax cuts are the designer label of lazy politicians. 
   It really is time to get rid of lazy politicians in all of our political parties. This country doesn't need numerous political parties that promote tax cuts and the super rich. We need politicians who want to work at creating the programs that redistribute wealth and aid Canadians.

Gary Morton
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Greed Rules at Canadian Chamber of Commerce - July/1999

   In a demonstration of pure greed Canadian Chamber of Commerce president Nancy Hughes Anthony has called for new and huge tax cuts for the wealthy.

   This is completely out of place at a time when the United Nations says the gap between the rich and the poor has grown to gross proportions. See the poverty page http://www.interlog.com/~cjazz/awar.htm for files on the subject.

   Prime Minister Jean Chrétien dismissed the calls for an additional $9-billion in tax cuts, reminding fiscal conservatives and the Chamber of Commerce that he intends to spend half of the budgetary surplus on social programs and job creation.

   Mr. Chrétien said his government was already planning tax cuts over three years.

   Tax cuts have been criticized here at Citizens on the Web as employers use them as raises. Hundreds of thousands of Canadian workers are told they don’t need a raise by their employers as they are receiving an income boost through tax cuts.
The cuts are now a double benefit for the rich who use money for stock market speculation and other unproductive forms of investment that do nothing to improve the human condition.
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World Wealth Redistribution Tax is what the Planet Needs – July/96

   Over the past two weeks the media has been filled with articles on taxing the Internet. At Citizens on the Web I featured two articles.

1. Major Flaws in United Nations Proposal for a Global Email Tax.
2. US Advisory Commission Pushing for Internet Tax.

   The first article dealt with a United Nations Development Program report recommending that world governments tax the Internet to help underdeveloped countries. This would be a tax of a penny per each hundred e-mails.

   The second article dealt with a US group called the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce that is making a strong push for Internet Taxation to the US Congress. Federal, state and local government officials on the panel and those representing the business sector supported Internet taxation.

    Ideas of taxing the net have major flaws. It could kill Internet commerce, which is really just developing. I also mentioned that the worst flaw in this idea is that it attempts to rectify the situation of an unequal distribution of wealth by taxing citizens who do not hold that wealth. Nearly all of the world’s wealth is flowing to the richest few families and corporations. The richest three families have more assets than the 600 million people living in the world's least developed countries. The 200 richest people on Earth have more than the combined income of 41 per cent of the world's population. The income gap between the richest fifth of the world's people and the poorest fifth increased from 30 to 1 in 1960 to 74 to 1 in 1997.

   Various plans to tax the Internet will not address this core problem as citizens will pay tax and those who are wealthy with teams of lawyers and lobbyists will escape taxation over time.

   Biometrics or a gross intrusion on personal privacy is also an issue in Internet taxation. In the long run Internet taxation will require "secure" sign-ons such as a finger-scans, iris-scans, or face recognition. Net-tax collectors and enforcers will also have to be international police agents with powers to conduct raids and make arrests of violators anywhere in the world.

   I concluded that World poverty and human pain too great to express grows daily because governments will not act to redistribute wealth. The world Corpocracy (A term I use to describe the thousands of speculators, billionaires, corporations and lobbyists combined with bankers, chambers of commerce and the IMF, World Trade Organization and other selfish agents.) is simply sucking up all of the wealth, power and sovereignty of nations.

   The sovereignty of nations has been handed over to organizations like the International Monetary Fund and related Courts. Financial speculators are wreaking havoc and destroying entire nations. And it is obvious that these business-oriented billionaires and groups will never work to solve the problems of world inequality.

    Some people have promoted debt forgiveness for poorer nations and a financial transaction tax.

   I would like to come forward and recommend that nations develop a new World Wealth Redistribution Tax and related programs.

   Though the idea of taxing the wealthy was once considered communism, growing inequality today is so gross that the idea can only be considered common sense and vital to survival. We simply can’t go on allowing all of the benefits of the planet to fall into the hands of a few while the masses suffer and die.

   For example – world poverty experts have said that they could build a world relief system and eradicate hunger with 40 billion dollars. But they will never get that 40 billion when each new billion flows into the pockets of people like Bill Gates.

   Beyond any doubt our world billionaires are not improving the human condition. Only the people through democratic government can do that and the only way to begin to reclaim the wealth is for nations to begin to act together and develop new wealth redistribution programs. They must be developed and enforced.

By Gary Morton

Contact a politician supporting a a World Wealth Redistribution Tax
http://www.interlog.com/~cjazz/pol.htm
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*  A new USA study finds the gap there to also be growing. - Since 1977, the after-tax income of America's wealthiest 1 percent has shot up 115 percent, and the income of the richest fifth of Americans has grown by a less spectacular but still robust 43 percent, according to a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Meanwhile the poorest fifth of the American population is getting 9 percent less income than it did in 1977, and middle-class households have eked out comparatively tiny gains--an average of less than 8 percent over the past 22 years.