A tax is a tax is a tax

A tax is a tax is a taxgoing to the private sector. It was supposed to go to some environmental program, it never did Why are we paying five cents to a private sector company, just to put in their pocket? question. As opposed to Ford straight talk, councillors supporting the charge get their knickers in a knot when anyone dares to call it a Coun. Mark Grimes, who wrote to Toronto resident William Adamson, after he complained about the plastic bag fee, which doesn go to the city.to be clear, the e mail from Grimes office began, NOT A TAX. The Toronto Sun and Ford calling it a tax does not make it one. It makes their reporting incorrect No money comes to the city of Toronto. This is a sign of a politician who has been around the corridors of power for too long.Any decision by government that imposes a new charge on the public is a new tax as far as ordinary citizens are concerned. That regardless of whether the money ends up in the hands of government or, because of the government, ends up in the hands of a supermarket chain or other retailers.Politicians play word games like this all the time.For example, Premier Dalton McGuinty, after spectacularly breaking his 2003 election promise not to raise taxes by imposing a $2.8 billion a year tax grab after the election, insisted on calling it a care premium thing applies to politicians who describe new taxes as neutral when they not neutral to taxpayers at all.