Re: 4 May 1970


In article <nG0cg.178935$7a.94651@pd7tw1no>,
Karl Johanson <karljohanson@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I was sent a letter from the Canadian federal government telling me I
hadn't paid X amount of taxes. I wrote them and explained that I had,
and gave them the cheque number. They corrected it. Soon after they sent
me a bill for interest on the amount of money they'd thought I hadn't
paid, but in fact had paid. I sent them another letter explaining the
situation, and they removed the bill. No need for court in my case.

There is a fine line between reason and insanity: The 49th parallel.

It may work with the US government as well, unless the US government is
substantially more incompetent or corrupt than the Canadian government.

Let's do a little comparison:

U.S. Gov't Canadian Gov't
---------- --------------
1) Kills hundreds of thousands of people YES NO
for no good reason

2) Borrows a billion dollars a day from YES NO
China

3) Cuts revenues while increasing YES NO
spending, despite (2)

4) Denies that the Earth is getting YES NO
warmer

5) Believes that the Earth is less than YES NO
10,000 years old

6) Tries to make contraception YES NO
unavailable

7) Has a balanced budget NO YES

8) Uses the metric system so that the NO YES
rest of the world is more likely to
find their stuff useful and decide
to import from them

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