sust-mar: what will YOU do with $155?

Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 07:53:01 -0400
From: Patricia Kipping <kipper@ns.sympatico.ca>
To: Paul A Falvo <pfalvo@chebucto.ns.ca>
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Further to re-directing your $155 bribe cheque from the Tories:

It will only work as a protest if you write Premier Hamm and let
him know what you've done with the money.

I recommend endorsing your cheque to the recipient of your choice,
photocopy it and send it with a note to the Premier.

On thequestion of choice, we need to be careful that we don't fall into the right wing
agenda that spins this individualized re-direction of our tax
dollars as "a good thing
because of the choice it gives citizens  to contribute to the
charity of their choice and how can that be bad?"  Undermining the
tax base is not the way
to use tax dollars or do public policy.

Be aware that if you give your money to a registered charity and
expect to get a tax receipt, the organisation may only be able to
use it for
non-political activities - such are the limitations on Canadian
organizations with charitable tax status.

I'm giving my bribe cheque to an organization I know the Premier doesn't
approve of, an organization that challenges him daily in the
legislature and is going
to directly challenge him where it really hurts - at the election
polls.

Pat Kipping



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