Kip Powick Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 French president proposes airline tax to benefit third world In what's sure to be a controversial proposal, French President Jacques Chirac on Monday suggested a tax on airline fuel and tickets by 2006 that would fight global epidemics, including the AIDS crisis in Africa. Germany is apparently going along with France in the proposal, according to the International Herald Tribune, with the two countries calling for "for the creation by the end of the year, along with all countries that wish, for a first international solidarity tax" that would fight "the great pandemics that are decimating Africa." Chirac said the fund could save 3 million lives each year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trader Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 I hope that is a joke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Check Pilot Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Chirac is a mere piker compared to some Canadian ways of thinking. I'm sure someone will give me H*ll for this but here goes anyway:: Subject: The Ant and the Grasshopper (famous fable) vs. THE CLASSIC VERSION OF THIS FABLE - (THE ONE THAT MAKES SENSE TO US!) The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. THE CANADIAN MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate like him are cold and starving. CBC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper, with cuts to a video of the ant in his comfortable warm home with a table filled with food. Canadians are stunned that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty. The New Democratic Party, the Canadian Auto Workers and the Coalition Against Poverty demonstrate in front of the ant's house. The CBC, interrupting an Inuit cultural festival special from Nunavat with breaking news, broadcasts them singing "We Shall Overcome." Svend Robinson rants in an interview with Pamela Wallin that the ant has gotten rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share." In response to polls, the Liberal Government drafts the Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant's taxes are reassessed and he is also fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as helpers. Without enough money to pay both the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, the government confiscates his home. The ant moves to the US and starts a successful agribiz company. The CBC later shows the now fat grasshopper finishing up the last of the ant's food though Spring is still months away, while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house crumbles around him because he hadn't maintained it. Inadequate government funding is blamed, Roy Romanow is appointed to head a commission of enquiry that will cost $10,000,000.00 The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose. The Toronto Star blames it on obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity. The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of migrant spiders, praised by the government for enriching Canada's multicultural diversity, who promptly terrorize the community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innuendo Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Reminds me of the Canadian lobster story. For the one or two who may not have heard it: Why do you not need a lid for a pot to boil Canadian lobsters? If it looks like one of the lobsters might be able to climb out of the pot, the others will grab him and pull him back in. I'd really like to think that it is not a true analogy but sometimes I wonder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aBusDriver Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 An "International Soladarity Tax" and France....should be in the dictionary under "oxymoron". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Check Pilot Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 Just when you thought it was over: These are real Canadian taxes I have managed to find and list. No wonder the ant left. 1 Accounts Receivable Tax 2 Building Permit Tax 3 Capital Gains Tax 4 CDL licence Tax 5 Cigarette Tax 6 Corporate Income Tax 7 Court Fines (indirect taxes) 8 Dog Licence Tax 9 Federal Income Tax 10 Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) 11 Fishing Licence Tax 12 Food Licence Tax 13 Fuel permit tax 14 Gasoline Tax 15 Hunting Licence Tax 16 Inheritance Tax 17 Revenue Canada IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax) 18 Revenue Canada Penalties (tax on top of tax) 19 Liquor Tax 20 Local Income Tax 21 Luxury Taxes 22 Marriage Licence Tax 23 Medicare Tax 24 Property Tax 25 Real Estate Tax 26 Septic Permit Tax 27 Service Charge Taxes 28 Social Security Tax 29 Road Usage Taxes (Truckers) 30 Sales Taxes 31 Recreational Vehicle Tax 32 Road Toll Booth Taxes 33 School Tax 34 Provincial Income Tax 35 Unemployment Tax 36 Telephone federal excise tax 37 Telephone federal universal service fee tax 38 Telephone federal, and local surcharge taxes 39 Telephone provincial usage tax 40 Telephone minimum usage surcharge tax 41 Telephone recurring and non-recurring charges tax 42 Telephone and local tax 43 Telephone usage charge tax 44 Tire tax 45 Toll Bridge Taxes 46 Toll Tunnel Taxes 47 Traffic Fines (indirect taxation) 48 Trailer registration tax 49 Utility Taxes 50 Vehicle Licence Registration Tax 51 Vehicle Tax 51 Watercraft registration Tax 52 Well Permit Tax 53 Workers Compensation Tax 54 GST on everything including your funeral 55 PST on just about everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dropzone Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 Chirac = Dork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st27 Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 Havn't got one in awhile but in Ont. there is a victims fund charge that is added on to the ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planett Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 We should tax all foreigners living abroad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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