Tax should be paid but once

摘要

Your Jan. 6-12, 2006, editorial concerning the RCMP and Finance Minister Ralph Goodale leaves me puzzled. One paragraph says that income trusts allow "a company to virtually cease paying taxes and instead pay out most of its profits to its unitholders, who may or may not pay tax." I would indeed appreciate an accurate statistic regarding how many citizens of Canada possess income trusts and do not pay income taxes. How do professional people (teachers, doctors, journalists, dentists, and engineers, like myself), gather enough income to maintain something close to our working day's standard of living unless we have cash flow in addition to the old-age, pension?