"Greg Carr" wrote in message
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> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:00:13 GMT, "Canuck57"
> wrote:
>
>>
>>First, that must be a smaller US gallon. An imperial gallon 4.546 Litre
>>per
>>imperial gallon versus 3.785 litres to the US gallon.
>>
>>Calgary is about $1.20 litre, which translates into:
>>
>> $5.45 per Imperial Gallon
>> $4.54 per US Gallon
>>
>>You have the crooked government part right. Oil company profits pail by
>>comparison to government profits.
>>
>>First, the government has to do very little to get their profit, and
>>obscene
>>ROI to build a road to Fort Mac or Estivan. They get enough revenue from
>>oil wells in months to pay for the road for 20 years. Just a moderate
>>area
>>producing 100,000 barrels of unrefined crude pay $20-30 million dollars a
>>day in royalties alone to the province. GST, PST and federal is extra but
>>get tacked on (compounded) before it gets tot he pumps!!!
>>
>>$1.30 at the pump. You have to earn $2.00 to get it, as your earnings are
>>taxed and it costs you to go to work. So in essence, you earn $2 to pay
>>for
>>a $0.65 cent product. That is obscene take by the governments. Now that
>>is
>>an obscene profit.
>>
>>And you complain because an integrated oil company drills for it,
>>transports
>>it, refines it and delivers it too you makes 5 - 7 cents/litre profit for
>>investing the billions it takes to deliver it? But you will gladly spend
>>$2
>>or more plus GST/PST on a 1/2 litre of bottled water?
>>
>>Your crack smoking and are looking at the wrong end of a donkey. But make
>>a
>>good political puppet. Enjoy your blood sucking government.
>
> Don't they supply hospitals, the RCMP, the Customs ppl, prisons,
> foreign aid, roads, highways, transit, Olympics, the military and even
> gave the Internet a big start in this country. It's not like it all
> goes to the CBC (which I actually listened to the other day) and the
> Comedy Museum in Mtl.
Customs is revenue generating. Last time I crossed the border, they were
unconcerned about seeing my passport I had to buy, and more concerned about
the vehicle I was driving was GST paid. The internet was built by companies
like Shaw, Rogers, Sympatico, Telus etc., for profit. Mind you, even though
the CRTC didn't fund a penny of it, they are government controlled to that
point.
But of what you mentioned, probably only accounts for 15% of total
government spending. Don't forget the corporate and personal welfare,
especially the corporate and the corruption. Then there are the transfer
payments to the French and natives, For example, the federal government
spends more on those transfer payments to non-individuals than they do for
education, health care and CPP combined.
CBC, in most countries that are democratic, the government does not "own"
the TV station, they are independent self sustaining business enterprises.
Generally, CBC only reports on government misdoings after it is reported by
private companies like CTV or splashed on the internet somewhere.
So when you listen to CBC, remember you are hearing reports on the
government by the government. Not a terribly independent view.
Net wages are profit. Why don't you go to work for $0/hr?
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