That is the same expression I use with my dog. To answer the question, Mr. Speaker, I think it might be a little dangerous to just take the taxes from cigarettes, for example, and use that solely for cigarettes. I believe that our costs for tobacco products advertising, paying for the costs and the results of the disease and so on from smoking is much greater than the amount of money that we collect on cigarette taxes. We want to be careful. If we start dividing it up that way we may find ourselves in shortfalls in some very important areas. In many cases, we are better off to use the program that we have now where we set priorities as a government and allocate our resources on that basis. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Joe Handley on Question 134-14(3): Profiling Revenues From The Proposed Hotel Tax
In the Legislative Assembly on July 5th, 2000. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 134-14(3): Profiling Revenues From The Proposed Hotel Tax
Question 134-14(3): Profiling Revenues From The Proposed Hotel Tax
Item 6: Oral Questions
July 4th, 2000
Page 483
See context to find out what was said next.