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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
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Posted: Sun Feb  5 15:57:58 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 08:04:50 EST
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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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