Should politicians by required to declare bribes as income and pay taxes on them?
Waitresses have to pay taxes on tips and are actually assessed as having received tips and charged taxes on them even if they never actually got any tips.
Why not assume all politicians get bribes and tax them, just like we assume all waitresses get tips and tax them?
Enigma:
Not all waitresses work in cocktail bars or at Hooters serving businesmen on expence accounts.
Not all waitresses get tips, but they all get assessed the same minimum amount for tips.
Waitresses do get tips, if they did not they would not be working as waitresses; as to bribes those are illegal and would hardly be reported as income and taxed.
Ya ya ya that sounds fair very fair to me.
Believe it or not, MOST politicians do not get bribed in this country. Yes, some have taken money for the wrong reasons, but in most cases in Canada, that sort of thing is done via ‘donations’ Therefore, the pol isn’t really receiving a bribe for services rendered, they are receiving money they spend on their elections. Nothing really ends up in their pockets. It’s still wrong, it still corrupts the political process, but nobody is getting rich off it.
What monetary gains they DO get tend to be in the form of jobs after politics, and for those, they do get taxed.
I know of very few waitresses who do not get tips. If they declare the proper amounts (i.e. all their tips), they will not be ‘assessed’. Any assessment is based on where and when they work, and determined by CRA investigators doing customer counts. A waitress in a small diner selling $5.00 meals will not be assessed the same as one working in a high priced restaurant with $100 meals.