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It’s the old “A dollar untaxed is a dollar wasted” meme.
Or if you prefer, “All your loonie are belong to us.”
The Liberals have done such an outstanding stellar job in investing our money in the past that we should keep giving them more. Without digging to deeply into the Liberal financial acumen, just off the top of my head the Ontario branch have really been impressive in ORANG, Mars, Gas Plants, and let me not forget wind generation. The National branch brought us such great investments as the Gun Registry, Adscam, the U-bought-a-lemon submarine contract and the cancellation of the helicopter replacement contract. Yeah the Liberals can do a better job of spending my money than the NDP can but I’ll stick with Harper and I can decide where I want to spend my own money, Thank You Very Much.
No Brian, Justin will impose a carbon tax, but make it “revenue neutral.” Just like in BC where taxpayers continue to receive their Campbell bucks, right? Wrong.
Unfortunately, Justin has a new ally in none other than Preston Manning who apparently has lost his mind:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/how-to-communicate-a-good-idea/article21642629/
That “good idea” is carbon pricing: “In the short run, it’s possible to make environmental levies “revenue neutral” by reducing income taxes. But in reality, the public is strongly disinclined to believe that any new tax is revenue neutral because they have been hosed so often in the past. (For example, the goods and services tax was supposed to be “revenue neutral” with the old manufacturer’s sales tax that it replaced, but it is not.)”
Well at least he’s honest about it, so why does he want to try this nonsense?
” ‘Handing people money for what? Arguably nothing,’ Marlo Raynald said last week at a public meeting.”
Flip that upside down and ask Marlo Raynald the same question: “Handing *gov’t* money for WHAT? Arguably nothing!”
What an elitist pinhead!
Wonder what they paid the black escort to follow him around?
If a overseas foriegner solely watched CBC coverage they’d think JT was plying to be an African or Hindi dictator.
They’re corruption knows no bounds.
I am beginning to think I was dumb to ever support Preston Manning.
A tax to support a scam. My, my, what have we come to?
The next move for Alberta Liberals will be a mandatory “Approved Shopping” list.
According to Liberals Albertan’s should look forward to government stores that ration out your approved family needs.
Same line of thought as “you didn’t build it”.
It’s not “your” money that government is allowing you to keep…it’s “their” money.
And, as for turdo la doo’s impromptu but I-have-to-glance-at-my-lines “victory” speech, here hasn’t been a bigger pile of bullshit since Tennyson penned Charge of the Light Brigade.
And, by the way, most grade 7 – 8 kids I went to school with were able to memorize that without looking at cue cards.
Is it possible that Ken (Kulak) has it backwards and that the scam was created to support a tax?
How DARE they!!! I’ll bet not one person used that money to buy social justice or even a Royal Commission!
Leaked Liberal campaign plank:
proposed new tax on TV and Cars to augment existing tax on beer and popcorn
I understand they’ll call it a Hoser Tax.
Think. Anyone working in a government job (e.g. job paid by the taxpayer) logically would agree with this thought. That is precisely how socialism initially flourishes: by slowly and steadily growing the percentage of jobs funded by the taxpayer (private sector). In Ontario, I believe more than 20% of all jobs are on the public teat.
Think about it. That’s a pretty reliable 20% of the electorate, all of whom are motivated (if not mandated by their PSU) to vote for the left. If that number ever gets above 30%, we’re looking at a permanent Socialist government – at least until they run out of other people’s money.
Less jobs funded by taxpayers leads to more responsible government. Right now 20% of the population (or likely 30% of the voters) vote solely on the basis of wages and work compensation. All other political issues are a distant second. Give me $60K + pension + benefits in a low-skill job until retirement, with no performance incentives, and the government worker will diligently vote socialist EVERY election day.
Yet nowhere is there evidence that socialism works.
Preston isn’t thinking clearly on this issue. To use his phrase, this is known as being “Ottawashed”…
‘carbon pricing’, ‘climate change’ whatever catch phrase is currently in vogue; is
the same old rubbish of fleecing the public to ‘feed the bureaucracy’.
Just as oil prices are falling, and hence government receipts on gas pump sales decrease, which would put more money into the hands of ordinary Canadians you get this jumped up assertion, that more taxes to government are better spent.
It is a cruel farce. The public has just been raped by the Great Recession of 2008-09 and are barely back to where they were, some still not, and we are now treated to more taxes.
I look at this article more as a trial balloon from the Mop & Pail, on beer and popcorn futures.
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So what would mr Renauld prefer people spend their money (aka tax savings on)?
Solar panels? Reiki massage? An electric car?
Here’s a scary anecdote. A few years ago I was discussing taxes with one of my leftist friends here in Toronto. I was arguing that the government was wasteful and taking my hard earned money was counter productive. He flat out told me that he approved of higher taxes to support government programs and would be willing to pay even more. Just like Scandinavia.
These are the same people that thought Wynne and her corrupt Liebrals were a great choice for Ontario.
“Just like Scandinavia”
yah got to love sh*t like that. I was just to “Scandinavia” and I could not have imagined the difference of their life style/culture, nor could any one have articulated it accurately. And when some idiot references one of these countries they’ve never been to, they don’t understand the difference either. What works in one place/country may just not work in another. I couldn’t live in Scandinavia (Finland), and their ways would cause a revolution over here.
Or Gord, perhaps a trip to Jack Layton’s old stomping grounds at 787 Dundas St W.
CBCpravda always reports a tax cut as a net loss to the government , not a saving to the taxpayer
I can think of a net 1.4 billion gain to the government using the same method
Mr Harper tear down this corp!
I think Mr. Raynald is surprised that anyone noticed his commentary.
A history of the riding in which he’s running…. note that last time around, the local Green Party candidate received more votes than either of the traditional left of centre candidates…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Rose_(electoral_district)
I worked in the riding while it was represented by Myron Thompson. Many folks I met in the area spoke of him as though he was a great friend, only good stories about him.
Any time there is a tax cut, tax refund or tax reduction of any kind it is nothing more that evidence that taxes were too high in the first place. Then suddenly bureaucrats like Raynald and hundreds of others see this pool of money that they cannot bear to return to its rightful owners IE: the taxpayers from whom it was confiscated in the first place. That’s when they start whining about what the money will be spent on, if only they could get their hands on this money they could proceed to re-distribute the countries wealth and revel in their socialist wet dream of total government control.
Interesting to note that Justin Trudeau went on the air (CBC, CTV etc.) claiming a Liberal victory after losing the seat of Whitby-Oshawa to Pat Perkins.
Even more interesting to note that Trudeau himself, the son of a past prime minister, has never accomplished anything close to what Pat Perkins did in Whitby.
In last night’s by-election, Perkins received 17,033 votes out of a total of 34,605 confirmed ballots with a lead of almost 3000 votes over the Liberal. That works out to 49.2 % of the pop vote.
In Papineau, 2011, Trudeau received 16,429 votes out of a total of 42,772 confirmed ballots. He only received 38.4 % of the Pop vote. In 2008, he won his seat by only 1189 votes out of a total of 42,735 votes. And yet his cohorts made him the leader of the party.
Hilarious to see that his occupation is listed as ”Teacher.” I think ”teach” needs to rewrite Math 101!!
Liberals just can’t seem to get their head around how wealth is created.
They seem to correlate the existence of the Canada Mint to the government owning all the money in circulation because the government agency printed it. What they overlook is the mint isn’t printing money it’s printing IOU’s.
These aristocrats really got to get out of the middle ages.
I am afraid accounting was out of the question.
And so our drama teacher was inspired,or deluded by this Monty Python sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XMOmB1q8W4Y
What the byelections showed is that the NDP is becoming irrelevant and they’ll be walloped in the next general election.
Not surprising they got less than 10% in Yellowhead.
About the same in Whitby-Oshawa for the same NDP candidate that got about half as many votes as the late Jim Flaherty in the last general election.
Marxist-Leninist has had its day in Canada, no matter what it calls itself ie. progressive.
Preston Manning is not happy Stephen Harper has been such a success, he’s showing his green streak as in the old green eyed monster called jealousy. The fact Preston is calling for a carbon tax but advising the politicos don’t call it that shows he has moved over to the dark side. This kind of puts the boots to what many thought him to be, an up front, honest and religious man, he’s now joined the regressive progressives, falling for the myths of the Green Bible.