keith2468
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-03
Winnipeg, MB
| 1776 - Secret Taxes Bad For Democracy
I'd actually like to see the genuine taxes itemized on the bills.
But I'd like to see this done up front, in a uniform manner, breaking out the existing fee, not as sneak rate hikes.
Otherwise we have taxation without voter knowledge or voter consent.
And taxation without consent was a significant part of what the US War of Independance was over.
Secret taxes are a bad thing for democracy.
That there are laws prohibiting the disclosure of taxes on account statements is unethical and anti-democractic.
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Facekhan
join:2002-05-01
Gaithersburg, MD
| Lobbying on your bill.
I don't have a big problem with such taxes being revealed on your bill but I do have a problem with this nonsense of charging "tax recovery" fees. In some cases phone companies and cable companies have itemized tax recovery fees on their customer's bills in such a way to make it appear that it was a tax on the customer and not the company and in a few cases they passed on a tax that did not actually exist or that had expired decades ago or that was not based on anything that could be divided at a per customer rate without significant fudging.
Also I resent that a public telephone monopoly or an incumbent big bell provider should be lobbying for pro-industry legislation on the bottom of every bill. |
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