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{
"time": "2009-03-10 12:35:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Maurice Vellacott",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1359885\" data-originallang=\"en\">Right.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1359886\" data-originallang=\"en\">We'll maybe just run down the line again, if we can, to some degree, in terms of proposals. Mr. Savage referred to some of the written stuff that Ken had done before as well. Could each group respond? I don't think we have a fix on that in terms of the numbers. We talk about the wonderful things that could and should be done, and I think a lot of us don't have differences all around the table here on that, but it would be great to do these things. What are the dollar tags, the dollar costs with respect to some of these things? Governments, whatever they state at times, don't have inexhaustible revenues. You can always increase taxes significantly. If you reduce those, as was done with the GST, the money gets back into the hands of some people, but then you have less government revenue too. What costs are we looking at in terms of your proposals, Ken and Sherri, and along the line here?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1359885\" data-originallang=\"en\">Bien.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1359886\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous allons peut-\u00eatre de nouveau sauter de l'un \u00e0 l'autre, si vous le permettez, pour entendre vos propositions. M. Savage a mentionn\u00e9 certaines propositions \u00e9crites de Ken. Est-ce que chaque groupe pourrait r\u00e9pondre? Je pense que nous ne connaissons encore gu\u00e8re les co\u00fbts. On parle de toutes sortes de choses merveilleuses qui pourraient et devraient \u00eatre faites, et la plupart d'entre nous autour de cette table ne s'oppose pas l\u00e0-dessus car il serait excellent de faire ces choses. Mais quel serait le co\u00fbt de ces mesures? Les gouvernements, quoi qu'ils puissent dire, n'ont pas des revenus in\u00e9puisables. On peut toujours augmenter les imp\u00f4ts. Si vous les r\u00e9duisez, comme on l'a fait avec la TPS, l'argent revient aux mains de certains contribuables, mais en contrepartie vous avez moins de recettes fiscales. Combien co\u00fbteraient vos propositions, Ken et Sherri, ainsi que les autres?</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/human-resources/40-2/9/maurice-vellacott-3/",
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"source_id": "2648914",
"document_url": "/committees/human-resources/40-2/9/",
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}