CQ, CQ,CQ de CFET

CQ, CQ, CQ, de CFET
An appeal to Canada and USA Ham Radio Operators
To provide a public service to Canada’s
Victims of phantom income taxation.

By Victor Drummond ©
February 2009

Providing any kind of service to humans in distress seems to remain in the domain of people with a sense of compassion, decency and social responsibility that is more highly developed than is found in the average person.

What inspires a person to contribute their time and money to support organizations such as the International Red Cross or the Salvation Army, or the Amateur Radio Fraternity who’s members participate year after year in a 24 hour, international communications marathon called, Field Day? What is the purpose of Amateur Radio Field Day anyway?

Amateur Radio Field Day is a training/practice exercise in setting up an emergency world wide communications system that is self sufficient, e.g. independent of any form of outside energy supply.

Awards and prizes are given to both individual Amateur Radio operators, and Amateur Radio Clubs, for logging the greatest number of contacts in the 24 hour period according to a number of different categories, e.g. taking frequency bands used, power of the transmitter, type of antenna, for example.

A typical Ham Radio enthusiast is a conscientious person who uses their own money to build and/or buy expensive radio gear, erect their own antenna systems and utilize their own time to participate in their chosen hobby.

When disaster strikes, such as earthquake, fire, flood, landslide, volcanic eruption and the like where people are victimized, killed, maimed and/or left homeless, communication of the event and for those victimized has often been first and foremost provided by Ham Radio Operators.

If everyone were as unselfish and socially considerate as the average Ham Radio Operator the world would be as close to paradise as it is possible to get.

What would the world be like if everyone took a purely selfish attitude and like the Pharisees and Scribes in the parable of “The Good Samaritan” merely looked upon those who were fallen upon by thieves and then they passed by on the other side?
You wouldn’t want to live there.

THERE IS A DISASTER TO ADDRESS IN CANADA

For the past eight years, a minority of both American and Canadian taxpayers have fallen victim to defective income tax legislation and many have been financially decimated to the point where homes were lost, families were broken up, peoples life’s savings were wiped out, and peace of mind destroyed.

This abysmal situation was caused by taxing certain people on Phantom Income, e.g. money the taxpayer never actually received but were taxed on anyway due to defective income tax legislation.

Some U.S. newspapers reported this insidious tax policy as a contributing factor in the suicide of two American taxpayers.

In October 2008 the U.S. Congress passed a bill amending their defective “Alternative Minimum Tax”, (AMT), legislation thereby putting an end to taxing income that never existed. Also all related outstanding taxes and penalties have been revoked and those already victimized are being compensated. Ref:- www.fair-iso.org and www.reformAMT.org

Canada’s government, on the other hand, has essentially ignored all appeals by victimized Canadian taxpayers, over the past eight years, and still shows no sign of responding to the many appeals made by victims personally and/or the victims support group “Canadians for Fair and Equitable Taxation”, (CFET). Ref:- www.cfet.ca

Apparently Canadian victims need a louder voice, raised in protest, by more Canadian voters, before our federal political leaders turn on their hearing aids.

In order for this louder voice to become a reality victimized Canadian taxpayers, who are spread across a variety of Canadian Corporations, e.g. Communications, Financial, Mining, Forestry for example and also physically spread across the vast area of Canada, need to be informed there is a group of victims and supporters waiting to assist them in obtaining justice and Fair taxation.

It is difficult, for CFET, a Non-profit Public Service Group, to reach these widely distributed victims to make them aware there is a group of public spirited Canadians fighting for them and fighting for every Canadian’s RIGHT to FAIR and EQUITABLE TAXATION.

Why Should Amateur Radio Club’s and/or Amateur Radio Operators
get involved with Tax Issues?

(1) Because a significant minority of honest hard working Canadians have been financially ruined, to the extent of losing their homes, losing their life’s savings, children losing their education funds and in some cases suffering the loss a parent through domestic breakdown all because of a flaw in Canada’s insidious taxable benefit legislation and application policy.

(2) Because the RIGHT of every Canadian to FAIR and JUSTIFIED TAXATION is compromised as long as the present flawed “taxable benefit” legislation remains in force.

What can Amateur Radio Clubs and Operators
do to help?

When individual amateur operators are rag-chewing they could mention the fact that some Canadians are being taxed on income that never existed.
That will come as news to most people.

Then they could inquire if their contact has heard of this phantom tax fiasco and/or knows of anyone victimized by it. They could mention the United States had a similar tax problem which they fixed last October, complete with compensation to those American Taxpayers already victimized. The U.S. government did this in spite of their current economy problems.

They could then encourage every contact to visit the CFET web site:- www.cfet.ca and sign the petition, anonymously if preferred, and post a comment. Everyone over the age of majority may sign the CFET petition, and post a comment. Signers do not need to be actual victims of the phantom income tax, they only need to be in favour of elimination abusive taxation.

When club editors are composing club news reports, bulletins and the like, make mention of this un-Canadian tax and the CFET web address.

Amateur Radio Club publication(s) editors could accept paid ads from CFET to appear in Amateur Radio Club bulletins and/or News Reports.

Participating in correcting this abusive, unjust and unfair situation is performing a genuine public service because as long as the present defective legislation remains on the law books every Canadian’s RIGHT to fair taxation is compromised and new victims continue to be created.

Radio Amateurs are the best media to accomplish the job of reaching into every nook and cranny across Canada to assure maximum public awareness of CFET’s public service program, e.g. to restore Fair and Equitable Taxation for all Canadians.

QSL via www.inquiry@cfet.ca or via e-mail vic.drummond@sympatico.ca

73’s & 88’s

Victor Drummond ©