__ I recently watched Michael Moore's documentary titled: "SiCKO'' http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=a7pCaK0aASE&gl=US
Every American needs to view this in its entirety. The years of
misinformation regarding the benefits of a Universal Healthcare system,
will be quickly replaced by straightforward knowledge of the benefits
such a plan can offer all Americans. It will reveal how
''dummied-down'' the misinformed public have become due to
misinformation aired daily across mainstream news broadcasts and talk
shows.
On the other hand, Canadians need to view this film
as well, to ensure that their Universal Social Healthcare system may
never be dismantled by any future government's sinister intentions. A
point to consider is that the 'corporate lobby' has been pushing
Canadian politicians to make changes to the Canada Health Act over the
last thirty years. Changes that have undoubtedly diminished the
quality of healthcare in Canada.
Presently in Canada, ever
citizen enjoys the lack of red-tape that Canadian health care offers.
Canadians experience a comfort knowing their health concerns will be
taken care of when they arrive at a clinic or hospital emergency ward.
Canadians are not going to find themselves in debt by having their
health concerns taken care of. This is why Tommy Douglas and Lester
Pearson created Canada's Universal Healthcare system over fifty years
ago. Their intention was that no health related issue should ever drive
a family into bankruptcy. However, when a government refuses to
tax the corporate sector in order to maintain the funding necessary for
a functional and efficient universal healthcare system, then the
underfunded system begins to look as though it needs 'privatizing'. A
successful universal healthcare set-up needs proper government funding.
See "declining corporate tax rates" below.
The
film "Sicko" illustrates that Canada, Britain, France and Cuba are some
of the many countries enjoying the benefits of a Universal healthcare
set-up. It becomes apparent that Americans are being duped by their
'lobbied' government officials; duped by the Health Insurance Management
Organizations, and by the American Medical Association. Around 50
million Americans either have no health insurance, or do not qualify for
Health Insurance benefits. Millions of those who are 'allegedly'
covered under their company's Health Insurance plan discover, when a
health issue arises, that the Health Management Organization handling
their claim has a long list of criteria used to ''deny'' insurance
claims. After watching the documentary, any American will
soon realize they have been lied to, misled, misinformed and set-up by
those corporate executives and politicians who profit off of "denying"
healthcare benefits to Americans.
A friend pointed
out to me that in Australia, their Universal Social Healthcare plan
covers all dental work for children as well.
The
film "Sicko" by M. Moore, illustrates how corporate-friendly news
broadcasts in the US, have kept the people misinformed. The next
question that arises is: "In what other ways are we being lied to?"
In
the film, one salient point made by a French citizen was this: "In
France, the government is afraid of its citizens; while in America, the
citizens are afraid of their government."
Chew on that for awhile.
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For Canadians who wonder why our schools are closing, our tuition fees are increasing for aspiring college and university students, our roads are deteriorating, and our Universal Healthcare system has gradually introduced user fees and added pharmaceutical medication costs where none existed before.....just take a look at the reduced tax rates for the corporate sector over the last 50 years. See below.
How the 'Corporate Welfare' Fraud works: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development -- OECD-- involves 34 countries. http://www.oecd.org/document/1/0,3343,en_2649_201185_1889402_1_1_1_1,00.html The OECD member countries are lobbied (bought off) by executives of international corporations to lower corporate tax rates. Then, as one member-country at a time reduces corporate tax rates, the pressure is put on remaining member-countries to lower their corporate rates in order to compete "globally". The whole reduction in corporate taxes has been foisted on 34 member nations intentionally. Government revenues have depleted, and the weakened economies are justified as ''keeping up with declining international corporate tax rates''. It is a complete scam by the wealthiest CEO's on the planet. It goes under the guise of "being competitive internationally". I am but a simple man, however, I surmise that corporate tax cuts by OECD member nations has been a well-orchestrated, outright money-grab by the international corporateers.
Price of a gallon of gasoline in the OECD countries is double that of many non-member states: Why do globalists charge such horrendous rates to their clientele, while at the same time ask for reduced tax rates? All OECD member countries have gasoline prices ranging from $3.50 to $8.50 a gallon. Current membership Australia Austria Belgium Canada Chile Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Japan Korea Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands Norway New Zealand Poland Portugal Slovak Republic Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom United States
Non-member nations: Iran, Yemen, Iraq, Indonesia, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Nigeria and Bolivia have gas prices from $1 to 3 dollars a gallon. Kuwait, Libya, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia which had their oil fields 'nationalized', redistribute profits within their own country, and charge their citizens under one dollar per gallon. And Oman is only 1.25/gallon. Libya and Saudi Arabia is 65 cents/ gallon, while Venezuela is 13 cents/gallon. Why do corporate executives of Western-owned oil companies over-charge their own citizenry and other clientele across the globe? Or is it that, the increasing cost of gasoline in the West is a means for governments to recoup lost revenues that arise by under-taxing the corporate sector??
Has war on Middle Eastern and African nations, to overtake oil resources, really helped the citizens of the West? Or are those profits remaining in the hands of the oligarchs who pull the political strings and wave the banner for never-ending war? The citizens of vanquished nations such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya will tell us a tale of how their countries have gone from modernization to devastation by 'Western military intervention'. On the other hand, rising taxes and rising gasoline prices are put on the shoulders of the citizens of OECD nations....to cover the losses inflicted by reduced 'corporate taxation'. Citizens are expected to pay for these instigated 'wars for corporate profit' in the Middle East. Is any of this making sense?
These cuts mean our government looses a hundred billion dollars of former revenue, yearly. Those revenues are necessary: to maintain low tuition fees for students; to keep schools open; to meet the costs of an efficient universal healthcare system; to maintain renewed infrastructure spending, and to upkeep environmental maintenance projects. For example: When government reduces corporate taxes by 100 billion dollars over the course of fifteen years ....that means 100 billion dollars in revenue is not there the following year, and the following year, and the following year. This is how a country's economy is gutted by 'corporate welfare'.
I discovered a 2006 report: http://www.pwc.com/en_CA/ca/tax/publications/ttc-0508-en.pdf where it states that leading corporate executives, who already enjoy multimillion dollar yearly bonuses, lobby the Canadian Federal and Provincial governments for even further tax cuts. I'll quote from the report: "Canadian CEO's ranked tax regime reform as more important than environmental legislation, education, healthcare and labor laws". The report went on to say that lobbying for lower tax rates in the varying tax codes across the globe was high on their boardroom agenda.
To put it simply: Our government officials are either 'bought off' to keep corporate tax rates low, or are obligated under IMF banking stipulations to abide by World Bank and World Trade agreements....resulting in hundreds of billions of lost revenues yearly....lost revenues that no longer fill our government coffers ... leaving diddly squat to cover costs of healthcare and education that were easily covered only forty short years ago.
This is why in my articles regarding war, 9/11, and how the world works, I constantly state that North Americans live in the illusion of a democracy because, in fact, our politicians sold out to the corporate sector years ago. We live in "a rule of, and by, the wealthy."...and people need to wake up to this fact and do something about it. Shall we allow a handful of corporate-affiliated politicians and banking privateers to continue to exploit 35 million Canadians or, for that matter, 350 million Americans.
"Although the United States has the second highest OECD statutory corporate
tax, the background paper reports that U.S. corporate income tax revenue
(federal and state) as a percentage of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) paradoxically is much lower
than the OECD average — 2.2 percent in the United States versus an OECD
average of 3.4 percent — over the 2000-2005 period. In short, the OECD
data present a conundrum — the United States has the second highest combined statutory corporate tax rate among OECD countries, yet is tied with Hungary in raising the fourth lowest amount of combined corporate income tax revenue relative to GDP in 2004." Meaning that the tax rate may be higher in the US, but tax loop-holes, write-offs and deductions leave the US Government collecting far less revenues from corporations than 30 out of 34 member nations. http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/features.nsf/Articles/FE9DCA58402875D7852573680064DA50?OpenDocument
Corporate Tax Revenues in America are near historical lows: "During the 1950s, federal corporate tax revenue averaged 4.7 percent of
the gross domestic product (GDP). But by the most recent decade
(2000-2009), corporate taxes had fallen to just 1.9 percent of GDP. 10.7 percent of federal revenues were collected through the
corporate tax in 2009; down from 29.8 percent of revenues in the 1950s." http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3411
Remember what that Frenchman said to Michael Moore in his documentary: "In France,
the government is afraid of its citizens; while in America, the citizens
are afraid of their government." How about we change that... sometime soon.
