Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Europe deserves to die for ideas like this one

Day by day, I discover another reason why I am profoundly grateful my ancestors left the old world to come to the new. Yahoo News carries a report on the Happy Taxpayers Association of Finland:


HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finns should be happy about paying some of the highest income taxes in Europe. At least that's what Finland's new Happy Taxpayers' Association says. The association wants Finns to focus on the public services they receive rather than dwelling on negative thoughts about income tax. "I don't think there is another official association like ours in the world," group vice-president Anna Tommola said on Monday.

(Thank you, Jesus.)
She was speaking after the association, boasting some 250 members, was recognised by the national board of patents and registrations."We want to raise positive but critical discussion about taxes," Tommola told Reuters.

The innate danger for Canadians with this whole “be happy taxpayers while the government unceasingly sodomizes you financially” is; if the Finn’s manage to develop a successful marketing campaign, Canadian Liberals will no doubt attempt to incorporate it as the blueprint of the next Liberal little red book.

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