Comments on: Canada’s shame, Part II http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16023 p2pnet.net - reader powered Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:23:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16023/comment-page-1#comment-492382 Reader's Write Mon, 26 May 2008 13:23:21 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16023#comment-492382 Coconut, did you know that for every dollar spent on First Nations people, between 60 to 80 cents is spend on non-native and native bureacracy. The majority of it paying non native bureacratic salaries. The annual indian affairs budget is roughly, when I last checked, was roughly 6 billion. When schools are built, it's non-native companies and employees that stand to benefit. For taxation purposes, this is confined to on-reserve only. Salaries not earned on-reserve are subject to taxes payable like anyone else, regardless whether one is treaty exempt. As for free education, it's a treaty right in exchange for the land Canada now enjoys. Or perhaps you'd care to give back the land .... Coconut, did you know that for every dollar spent on First Nations people, between 60 to 80 cents is spend on non-native and native bureacracy. The majority of it paying non native bureacratic salaries. The annual indian affairs budget is roughly, when I last checked, was roughly 6 billion.

When schools are built, it’s non-native companies and employees that stand to benefit.

For taxation purposes, this is confined to on-reserve only. Salaries not earned on-reserve are subject to taxes payable like anyone else, regardless whether one is treaty exempt. As for free education, it’s a treaty right in exchange for the land Canada now enjoys. Or perhaps you’d care to give back the land ….

]]> By: Coconut http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16023/comment-page-1#comment-491490 Coconut Mon, 26 May 2008 02:56:02 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16023#comment-491490 Our government is constantly supplying money to reserves and to the first nation people. Blame the Band members. I am fed up with all the whining. I wish I could get a job and not pay any taxes and have the regular tax payers feed money back to my reserve so I could keep all my own money. Oh wait I'd rather not take advantage of any of the programs that are offered, not work, sit on my butt and whine that the government is at fault cause they don't give us enough money. What other nationality in Canada gets free education their whole life including university(free dorms) and when they are finished they never have to pay taxes on the money they earn. Sorry I'm not sympathetic. Our government is constantly supplying money to reserves and to the first nation people. Blame the Band members.
I am fed up with all the whining. I wish I could get a job and not pay any taxes and have the regular tax payers feed money back to my reserve so I could keep all my own money. Oh wait I’d rather not take advantage of any of the programs that are offered, not work, sit on my butt and whine that the government is at fault cause they don’t give us enough money.
What other nationality in Canada gets free education their whole life including university(free dorms) and when they are finished they never have to pay taxes on the money they earn.
Sorry I’m not sympathetic.

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