by Merlin » Monday Jan 17, 2005 2:15 pm
Dunno if the politicians are as big a bunch of pricks in Canada as they are here, Dogger, but ours charge an excise on all things that people buy shitloads of and won't question. They can't call it a tax 'cause they abolished names for taxes a few years ago and threw it all under the heading of GST, which is currently 10% on top of the cost of everything. If the bastards want to take, say, 50% of the cost of petrol, they call it an "excise", not a "tax". The very reason that I took up homebrewing is because the bastards also apply an excise on beer, which they increase as frequently and by as much as they see fit for no other reason than because they can. Because its not a "tax", see.... So Mr Howard can take the 10% of bugger-all that it costs me to purchase the ingredients for my homebrews, and shove his beer excise as far it'll go!
Sorry, had to get that out
Dunno if the politicians are as big a bunch of pricks in Canada as they are here, Dogger, but ours charge an excise on all things that people buy shitloads of and won't question. They can't call it a tax 'cause they abolished names for taxes a few years ago and threw it all under the heading of GST, which is currently 10% on top of the cost of everything. If the bastards want to take, say, 50% of the cost of petrol, they call it an "excise", not a "tax". The very reason that I took up homebrewing is because the bastards also apply an excise on beer, which they increase as frequently and by as much as they see fit for no other reason than because they can. Because its not a "tax", see.... So Mr Howard can take the 10% of bugger-all that it costs me to purchase the ingredients for my homebrews, and shove his beer excise as far it'll go!
Sorry, had to get that out
