Public health care, garbage pick up, safe food, clean water, public parks, emergency services, higher learning -- the chance to live in great communities, with the hope of reaching our personal dreams. It's time to start having the conversation about what our taxes contribute to a healthy society. Taxes, they're the gift we give each other.
This video was produced in partnership with the Sécretariat Intersyndical des services publics (http://www.sisp.qc.net/), and is available in English and French (http://youtu.be/RMZEvAmhp-8).
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Great video! Here's another one celebrating the impact of taxes on our lives - from the Fringe show Question Period the Musical! YouTUbe Channel: edSpective: http://youtu.be/vlGOykLN_es. Enjoy!
Great video! Here's another one celebrating the impact of taxes on our lives - from the Fringe show Question Period the Musical! YouTUbe Channel: edSpective: http://youtu.be/vlGOykLN_es. Enjoy!
So, basically this is a rah-rah campaign for the status quo. Life in Canada is wonderful because of the taxes we pay! Our governments do a great job of making sure we are happy and healthy! Let's hear it for our terrific governments and the way they spend our money!
Never mind that they spend much of our taxes on advertising to tell us what a great job they are doing. Or on wars and weaponry. Or on subsidies to fossil fuel companies that are detroying the planet. Or on their homeland security and domestic espionage programs. Or on their G20 and G8 fiestas, complete with siphoning funds to cabinet ministers' ridings. Or on building more prisons. Or on new military bases in foreign lands. Or on salaries and benefits for parliamentarians who spend their time taking away our rights, our privacy, our well-being, our dignity, and our security.
The video actually singles out such things as higher education and public transit for special admiration, despite the fact that both of those have been badly underfunded for years and despite the fact that there are currently tens of thousands of Quebecois marching in the streets because of (inter alia) the failure of federal and provincial governments to provide adequate funding for higher education!
The CCPA is definitely out to lunch with this video.