Curley Cues Index

Voluntary Taxation and Summary The fourth mechanism for governments to raise money is voluntary taxation, by which I mean gambling. I have a short little diatribe on the use of gambling as a government fund-raiser, and then I’ll try to summarize these four sermons. I buy lottery tickets. I maintain that if I don’t buy…

The second source of money for the government is taxation tied to our spending habits.  GST, HST, PST – every time we buy an article, we get to send money to the government for the privilege.  Some articles have direct taxes associated with them – gasoline, “sin taxes” on alcohol, and tobacco and now cannabis. …

Taxing Income Streams How many ways are there for the government to separate us from our money?  Fundamentally, there are only four. They can take money as it’s coming in, they can take money as it’s being spent, they can grab what we’re trying to hold onto, or we can give it to them voluntarily.…

Taxation Systems  Some time ago, I watched a news story which said that people working in the tax system believe that it is unfairly biased in favour of the rich. It went on to discuss what the survey information meant and how tax loopholes are being used to enable tax avoidance. More recently we went…