Anti-Tax Debate

And the debate should also be about whether we want to take a stand against anti-tax or anti-unfair taxes. There is a big difference. Should we talk about anti-HST or tax shift to higher incomes and corporations? We should be researching and debating these issues rather than blindly following politically fueled campaigns. These are not black and white issues. There is a lot of grey area to be explored and researched.But, that also doesn't mean that in the meantime, we sit with our lips sealed. Keep walking, keep learning, and keep sharing. That's what the platform of United Activists Network is all about. It is not an organization but an informative platform where current issues are being explored, discussed, and shared.

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Speak up Ontario!

HST―Let’s axe it or the air we breathe will be next to be taxed!

Do you know that HST is a tax on tax at the pumps? Here is the breakdown of taxes included in the $1.38 per litre price of gas:

Ontario Sales Tax: 14.7 cents per litre

Federal Excise Tax: 10 cents per litre

Toronto Retail Margin: 7 cents per litre

Then 13% HST on the above is added to the total price of gas we pay. HST is a tax on taxes. This illegal tax must be axed.

Fuming Gas Prices―We suffer while the corporate oil giants make millions a day. Why do we let them?

High Tuition Fees―Due to cut in federal funding, an Ontario student pays on an average of $5,138.00 a year in tuition fees because Ottawa feels the billions of taxpayers’ money is rather spent on bombing other countries and killing innocent victims rather than investing in our education system so no child is deprived of an opportunity of post-secondary education. The universities only go up to the highest limit possible but the tuition fee limits are set by the government. Nova Scotia that had the highest tuition fees are now the lowest. Why not Ontario? Because we are not speaking loud enough. Whatever little noise we are making, it is falling on deaf years. For all the time we don’t speak up, hundreds of thousands of students remain deprived of higher education and a higher number of students continue to be crippled with debt.

Health Care on the Edge of Privatization

The province first made sure our health care system is so doomed that it can justify the reform by giving private contracts to rich corporate bidders but the government is forgetting that we, the people are alert on the issues revolving around them.  Ontario’s Health Minister is leading the project towards P3 corporations. P3 corporations are for-profit organizations that have little public interest and all corporate interests in mind, with of course hefty under the table donations to our political parties. We need to speak up to demand that instead of privatizing, our tax dollars be put into our health care system. There is no reason why investing $35 billion dollar on fighter jets to drop bombs in Libya is efficient to the people.

Read the Ontario Health Coalition’s Report at

http://www.web.net/ohc/docs/lobbyinganddonations.htm

Sky Rocketing Auto Insurance Rates―In Ontario, the auto insurance regulations are set by the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO)―a 100% taxpayer funded agency. In reality, it is the government, not the private sector that sets the insurance rates. According to FSCO, as of March 31, 2011, FSCO has regulated 361 insurance companies, 44, 203 insurance agents, 4,420 corporate insurance agencies, and 1,499 insurance adjusters. Whose interests FSCO is watching out for? Taxpayers or the insurance companies?

Exploitation of Workers by Unregulated Employment Agencies in Ontario―And we must speak up on behalf of thousands of workers being exploited by employment agencies. Until these employment agencies are properly regulated by tough laws, workers will continue to be exploited under dangerous job conditions, less pay, no paid holidays or sick days and absolutely no benefits or job security. Don’t forget that the government loses a lot of tax dollars due to these employment agencies and the loss is made up from our tax dollars. That’s where taxes like HST come from to make up the losses due to lame government practices.

IT IS TIME, folks that we all get together and say NO to ALL unfair government practices before the upcoming provincial elections on October 8^th. If you are not happy with status quo, speak up! Unless you are a corporate hunch profiting from the current system of vulgar government practices, there is no reason why you shouldn’t join us!

United Activists Network (UAN)