23 Replies to “Why are farmers mad”

  1. Every Canadian should be upset with junior and his minion. Together they blew the budget to create the need to increase taxes.

  2. *
    “joes says… Together they blew the budget…”
    is anybody really surprised after pierre-lite’s first year
    $30 billion dollar deficit?
    i mean… seriously.
    but don’t worry… i hear “the budget will balance itself.”
    *

  3. Farmers indicated their willingness to comply with Trudeau when they didn’t ditch their Telus accounts.

  4. So what day has the Ontario Federation of Agriculture picked to plug up Ottawa with tractors until turdo la doo flushes his tax plan?
    Or, is the OFA – along with the Christian Farmers and the NFU – going to resort to its usual militancy and give turdo la doo a C on his report card?
    Okay. ….just being stupid. We all know the answer.

  5. Know what? Who cares. None of them are going to vote to separate, in the end they will lie down, and vote liberal/ndp/whatever, just like they always have. They won’t vote to cut any government, cause that is “mean spirited”. Instead, they will once again vote for more government, cause this time is different, and it will work this time.

  6. May I suggest a Farm Aid concert ? Bring in all the leftist “country” performers like John Cougar Mellencamp, The Dixie Chicks … Bob Dylan … and raise money for the broke Farmers being driven off their land. But have the performers all blame “The Orange Cheeto” and greedy Capitalist Bankers for foreclosing Farm loans. Blame Global Warming. Whatever … anything but the truth.
    Make no mention of the outrageous Tax Laws that ACTUALLY drove ol’ Saskatchewan Down … when all the people were singin …
    In the winter of ’25, we were hungry, just barely alive
    Now I don’t mind choppin’ wood, and I don’t care if the money’s no good
    Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,
    But Trudeau should never have taken the very best
    The night they drove old Saskatchewan down, and the bells were ringing
    Like my father before me, I will work the land
    Like my brother above me, who took a Canuck stand
    He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Mountie laid him in his grave
    I swear by the mud below my feet,
    You can’t raise a Smith back up when he’s in defeat

  7. http://moodysgartner.com/liberals-came-solution-now-desperate-find-problem/
    In the comments to the linked article there’s this link that goes to a VERY interesting plg post, which says among other things:
    “Wolfson went on to speak about equality of opportunity, and questioned whether there should be any measures that enable the intergenerational transfer of wealth, suggesting that if we are really serious about equality of opportunity, then we should have no intergenerational transfer of wealth and instead let the kids all start out at the same place as this would make for a more “convivial society”. Coupled with a governmental confiscation of that deceased parent’s wealth of course. You cannot make this stuff up. This is our firm’s “WTF” moment in this national comedy labelled as tax reform. The Liberal Party is basing their entire tax reform platform on Wolfson’s study (which by the way is chock full of bias and unrealistic assumptions), whose author has publically stated that he thinks family farms are outdated and inefficient, and NOW proposes imposing a Marxist-style wealth confiscation on the Canadian taxpayer in a manner that would make Stalin proud. And we are not embellishing that – this is exactly what these proposals entail for the inter-generational transfer of a family business.”
    Check my blog for some more info on this Wolfson guy.
    Take-home message, y’all ain’t going to own that farm much longer.

  8. The NFU is made up entirely of small, unincorporated hobby farms. They support these additional taxes wholeheartedly.

  9. Which, is pretty well my point: there is no real opposition from any of the farm orgs.

  10. Central government hate Kulaks, farmers or not. They are independent.
    (Previously posted by error in a leter thread)

  11. The usual BS which the Liebels and Dippers use regularly, divide and conquer. What dif does it make whether a farmer, dentist, doctor or small business when tax rules are changed? People from all facets of society structure their affairs, especially retirement plans. around tax policy. For a government to retroactively change the rules is a betrayal of a social contract.
    Our son is a professional and is cutting his practice back as there is no fiscal reason to commit the time and overhead costs. What scares us is that he is also considering a move to the USA which will make visiting much harder.

  12. None of the farmers that I know in Southern Alberta have ever voted liberal for at least 50 years.
    The little dick and his head-man know that this action won’t lose any votes. He will go ahead to do farmers up the ass.
    On another note, the last commenter in the article was lamenting the loss of the CWB. The CWB never did anything to help except to collectivise farmers. It never stepped in when – every year we had a good harvest – the longshoremen went on strike. Never would it try to ship grain through Seattle or Portland. No, it could only go through Vancouver. Ships charged for waiting in the port during the strikes. Instead the CWB pushed for farmers to cave into the demands of the union. When the farmers didn’t cave to the extortion the CWB simply deducted the extra charges from the payout it gave the farmers.

  13. I don’t give this country 5 years, before it breaks up, or the place is administered by the Yanks. It will collapse financially & soon. I haven’t heard what the Cons will do, should they ever remove the LPOC from the trough. Judging from recent posturing (He’s not ready etc), not much will change if they do. Plan accordingly.
    Ha, captcha: 1835 country

  14. When it comes to taxes Morneau and Trudeau equate the owner of an incorporated business with a union worker even though their situations are entirely different.
    The union employee works standard hours, receives overtime pay, vacation pay, health benefits that include dental and eyeglasses, access to short term disability, long term disability, group life insurance, and company pension and if he wants more he can withdraw his labor by striking.
    The business owner provides all of the above for himself at his own cost with the added responsibility of having signed personal loan guarantees for any liability in the event the company fails.

  15. My main concern with the CWB is that, despite profitable export opportunities, they still had to leave a glut of grain on the prairies as cheap feed for livestock feeders. The sometimes double price in the US denied to Canadian farmers by imposing jail terms was not an effort to help grain farmers. It was an effort to help livestock feeders by keeping the glut of barley in Canada. It was communism at its finest.

  16. An interesting point to all those Liberals that think shareholders of companies are rich. Corporation numbers in Alberta are sequential. I recall numbers more than 30 years ago in the 100,000 range. Today companies are in the range over 2,000,000. 4 million Albertans have owned 2 million companies since the beginning of time. Most of these companies would presently be defunct having served their purpose and then being abandoned. Self employment is a way of life in Alberta with limited liability being a more significant factor than some imagined tax benefit that exists only in the moron Trudeau’s head. Virtually everyone who owns a truck or a piece of heavy equipment operates through a company as does every self employed tradesman or retailer. A small portion may get rich but most are working long hours and sacrificing their personal lives for their independence,

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