Path out of poverty is productive work Re: “We must tax the rich, for the benefit of all,” column, Jan. 22.
I could not for the life of me imagine that anyone, much less Trevor Hancock, a retired UVic professor of public health, still proclaims as virtue the ideals espoused by Marx and Engels in their Communist Manifesto of 1848. Those ideals are as impractical, unworkable and immoral now as they were in the middle of the 19th century.
No, the way to drag a person out of poverty is to enable them to do productive work, plain and simple. Using the reasoning of the cull protester, we should have seen even greater numbers of now near-extinct creatures. Perhaps someone from the anti-cull support groups could explain all that to us. I would sure like to know the answer.
I went to a large auto parts retailer one day looking to upgrade my old yellow headlights on my truck to some fancy new bright white ones. The guy behind the counter asked me: “Do you want the legal ones or the illegal ones?“ Environment-conscious people willing to forgo driving a car to the airport would achieve lesser carbon footprint and air pollution.
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