Hey Ralph. Are you going to answer my EI question that I gave you or not?
I'll take a crack at it. I doubt my response will in any way sway your "the government is corrupt" mindset, but I have a few comments...
Your question was "Are you going to tell me that is legal to force someone to pay insurance for something they can never collect on?"
Yes, it's a 100% legal given the provisions in the Employment Insurance Act. Is it fair or right? That's a whole different conversation, but is is legal? Absolutely.
It's not entirely accurate to say that your son will never get those premiums back and he is locked out of collecting.
Presuming your son was working after 2016, he would need to work 420 insurable hours to be eligible for EI. Can a high school student accumulate 420 working hours during a 10 month school year. It's possible...
True, your son couldn't collect EI if he lost his job between Sept and June, but what happens if he lost the job in July. Then he could collect. Sure there is a 10 month period of ineligibility during the school year but those hours worked do count towards insurable hours in the 52 week eligibility period and he could put those insurable hours towards a future claim. Not entirely correct to say that he's locked out or could never collect. Given the circumstances, he could collect on those premiums.
There's a school of thought that making EI difficult/impossible for high school students to collect is a good thing as it reduces a learned dependence on the system. It think there is some value in that. Same reasoning why the province makes it so "difficult" for an underage person to receive income assistance/welfare.
And charging tax over and over and over for the same car sold is what exactly? Tax was paid for said vehicle when new. The gov't got it's cut.
Same goes for the property transfer tax. Every time a house/property is sold, the buyer pays the tax. Doesn't matter how old the home and property is, how many times it's been sold before, the gov't collects the tax. The federal gov't also recently passed legislation that online sellers need to collect tax. So if you are flipping used goods on eBay, your buyers pay the tax. Doesn't matter how many times that item has been bought and re-sold over the course of its' life.
I'm not an expert in taxation by any stretch of the imagination, but I think it's fair to say that you aren't paying tax on an item, you are paying tax on an activity (buying/selling). The item is just used to calculate the tax owed.