"Canuck57" wrote in message
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"Frogwatch" wrote in message
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The recession of the Carter years and early Reagan years ended because
of new computer technologies creating opportunities for start-up
businesses. We need something similar today. When I talk to people
about starting their own businesses, many of them do not do it because
of the cost of health care. I have an employee who desperately wants
to work for himself but he will not because his wife is in poor
health. Solve this problem and small businesses will greatly
increase.

You think government health care will help? Look North, we have
government health care and people don't start real businesses here because
of the taxes, red tape and government interference. Then you get union
issues too. But also, lets skip the lineups for basic care, we often can
send pregnent women to the US because of bed shortages as babies don't and
can't wait like cysts, cancer, cateracts and the like.

Oh, we have lots of placeholder businesses, they are individuals with no
employees setting up corporations as to duck the tax load that you get.
But real employee based, we are far smaller in numbers per capita than the
USA.

The promise of health care is coming at a cost of your economic freedom.
Take any country that has government sponsored health care and take your
income and fill out their tax forms to find out what it costs, don't take
my word for it.

Try this page, and do one for our larget province, Ontario.

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/formspubs/menu-eng.html

For Ontario specific:

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/formspubs/t1gnrl/on-eng.html


Or if you want something much quicker, go to the site below. Then compare
to your current taxes where you are. But this site deals with averages and
may not be 100% accurate to your specific situation. But is accurate as an
average.

http://www.fraserinstitute.org/tools/Default.htm

Hints, BC and Ontario are the worst but represent almost 1/2 of Canadians.
So this is typical Canadian. Also note a comaprison list is provided after
you enter so you can see the tax rates and differences between different
provinces. A nice tool actually.