01-19-2008, 08:58 PM
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Pissing in the cornflakes
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That chart is misleading and doesn't really mean anything to the average tax payers. I provide health care for my employees and yet that would show up on your chart the same way a tax would on my employees as its just % of GDP.
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The average Canadian family pays about 48 percent of its income in taxes each year, partly to fund the health care system. Rates vary from province to province, but Ontario, the most populous, spends roughly 40 percent of every tax dollar on health care, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
The system is going broke, says the federation, which campaigns for tax reform and private enterprise in health care.
It calculates that at present rates, Ontario will be spending 85 percent of its budget on health care by 2035. "We can't afford a state monopoly on health care anymore," says Tasha Kheiriddin, Ontario director of the federation. "We have to examine private alternatives as well."
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...tml?cmp=EM8705
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