Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wateng.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!wateng!padpowell From: padpowell@wateng.UUCP (PAD Powell [Admin]) Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Revenue Canada Message-ID: <708@wateng.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 15:57:58 EST Article-I.D.: wateng.708 Posted: Sun Feb 5 15:57:58 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 08:04:50 EST Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 36 Well, we have all been reading/hearing about our glorious ghouls (after all, they go after estates too), the Revenue Canada bureaucrats. After discussion, we have decided that they have written their own laws, having decided that the Criminal Code is too silly for words. 1. You can't win. So don't even try. 2. You can't break even. We never lose. 3. You can't quit the game. Sorry, if you owe taxes, we seize your passport. Oh yeah, don't think about dying. We get you there too. Who do you think runs Hell? 4. You cannot be told the rules. After all, if you knew them, you might be able to figure them out. 5. If you do win, the rules are changed retroactively. I have been involved for 12 years with the guilty-of-incestuous-relations- with-a-log bureacrats (how about that for calling them block-heads?), and only once was I given a clear, understandable, and non-technical explanation about a difficult matter. It was along the lines of, "Look, Mr. Powell, You made it, it was not an expense, and we want our cut." Also, I have been convinced that the statements made by the various ministers, deputy dogs, etc., have been deliberate untruths, "lies", or deceptions. Since they have set the precedent in truthfulness, I suppose we should follow it. Also, having set a precedent for disclosures of correspondence, re correspondence of Mulrooney (sp?), I think that we should not place any faith in their confidentiality. After all, the last thing I need to have right now is a public disclosure of their interest in my Kewpie Doll ("really, now, Mr. Powell, $5,000 for 'et cetera' is a little much.") ("Oh, yeah, have you gone out and priced 'et cetera' lately?"). Perhaps it is time for a good, old-fashioned, tax revolt. I think that if all the individual tax returns were simply not filed next year, the entire tax system would collapse. Perhaps. Patrick ("Gotta Go. There is a Queen's Cowboy at the Door") Powell