The new PST:more corruption, more division, and more work for lawyers |
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Nipawin - April 6, 2000 - By: Mario deSantis | |
leadership is getting desperate |
Our leadership is getting desperate, and the more they get desperate for retaining their monopolized |
power the more they behave like ossified assets, unable to transform themselves, unable to acquire | |
new knowledge, unable to become more personable, unable to become democratic, unable to | |
appreciate human dignity. | |
a state of division and confusion |
Since there is no private entrepreneurship, our bureaucrats and politicians sell out our resources |
to global businesses, kill the economy of rural Saskatchewan, centralize and increase the | |
bureaucracy in the cities, write off people and children in their balance sheet. In this environment | |
of corruption, the potential talents of these bureaucrats and politicians dissipate in their fights to | |
acquire the best bureaucratic jobs and business contracts for themselves or their friends. | |
Therefore, it is not by chance that our Premier Romanow has the political interest to create and | |
maintain a state of division and confusion among all of us, the people(1). In this state of division | |
and confusion, the pecking ordered lawyers become the fulcrum of our economy, and as a | |
consequence the attention of our social and economic predicament shifts from wealth creation to | |
wealth extraction and dissipation. | |
economic policies for the benefits of the few and privileged |
The present state of confusion is today apparent with the governmental economic policies for the |
benefits of the few and privileged and against rural Saskatchewan, against our children, against our | |
people. In my articles, I was able to show that the justice system is corrupted, that our police is | |
corrupted, that our education system is corrupted, that our health care system is corrupted, in | |
practice we are experiencing an endemic corruption of our social fabric. In my past article on the | |
new Provincial Sales Tax(2) (PST), I highlighted the endemic corrupted and regressive behaviour of | |
our Honourable Eric Cline, Minister of Finance, and of our Honourable Premier Romanow just | |
by making reference to two literal passages of the budget address with respect to the PST. | |
intrinsic |
In the first literal passage they conceptualize the tax as a socialist tool to extract more and more |
resources from people; in the second literal passage they show their intrinsic racism when they | |
say that natives can now pay the PST on purchases off reserves since they are poor and they will | |
benefit from the new sales tax rebate. The leadership of these two lawyers turned politicians is | |
certainly enriching for the few and privileged, enriching for their friends, and enriching for their | |
community of lawyers; for me, their leadership is a pity! | |
lawyers are |
I appreciated the outrage and responses of the native population against the new sales tax. The |
Ochapowace Indian Band in Saskatchewan will not charge non-natives PST when they buy | |
goods on the reserve(3). The band is also keeping any income tax money it collects from | |
non-natives working on reserve. A new party is being formed to protect the interest of natives(4), | |
demonstrations and lawsuits have been exercised by different native groups. As usual, in an | |
environment of division and corruption, the lawyers are at work more than ever, and they thank | |
Premier Romanow for placing the legal creativity on the pedestal of wealth creation in this province. | |
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Quote by Donella Meadows "challenging a paradigm is not a part-time job. It is not sufficient to make your point once and then blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested interest in, a commitment to, not getting it. The point has to be made patiently and repeatedly, day after day after day" ftp://sysdyn.mit.edu/ftp/sdep/Roadmaps/RM1/D-4143-1.pdf http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/meadows/default.htm | |
General reference: Articles by Mario deSantis published by North Central Internet News http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/authors/desantis.html | |
Education and Health Tax: Wider Based and Breaks the Treaties, by Timothy W. Shire, April 1, 2000 | |
The Political Mission of Premier Romanow: Divide and Conquer, by Mario deSantis, April 18, 1999 | |
The new Provincial Sales Tax is a reflection of a regressive and racist mentality, by Mario deSantis, April 1, 2000 | |
New tax system for Indian band, CBC Saskatchewan, http://sask.cbc.ca/ Web Posted | Apr 4 2000 2:12 PM | |
New party a matter of principle, Murray Mandryk, The Leader Post, April 4, 2000, Regina, Saskatchewan |
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