A political campaign so crazy it might just work: Pierre Poilievre treats voters like adults.
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The liberal voters are slightly dimmer than thair leader, so none of them will vote PP, ever.
What’s Rick Mercer got to say?
The same schtick.
Is Rick Mercer still on TV?
The debt bomb is a feature not a bug.
Rick Mercer thought an elected Senate was a stupit idea. Enough said about Rick Mercer.
Nothing is ever as it seems. For decades now we have, WE, allowed incompetent socialist/communist governments to run the country. WE have allowed this to happen. The die cast and things are going to fail because WE are very stupid. Rational intelligent people would have worked to prevent the destruction the day after WW2 ended.
Excellent ad but spoiled by the bizarre choice of music starting in the second part. And I told them – never hire a musician whose entire repertoire consists of 4 notes.
Never fear though, the ‘journalists’ are going to destroy Poilievre for this.
The idiot in charge is safe, the media cartel is working on it.
Whoo boy, the current government was sure prescient when they created and rolled out the MAID program. It’s almost as if they planned it!
No more desperate people leaping from buildings making a muss and a fuss, here’s a little pill, it will all be nice and clean and neat!
MAID was created to defuse the debt bomb. Its nickname is “Die Hard”.
… and now we wait to be informed on how Max has a better handle on what’s going on, and how to fix it.
Awww .. The budget will balance itself..
One of the main reasons Canada has been bringing in millions of 20 year old males.. They want them to be productive right away.. A socialist hail Mary pass that has worked out so well in Europe..
Maybe is not really a good plan.. But thats all we got..
“…the budget will balance itself ..”
Yes, left to itself, the budget will balance itself. It can take more than our lifetime with much ruin and suffering along the way.
They brought in a bunch of thirsty chumps who thought blonde girls would be begging to touch their weens. They inseminated some welfare queens and voila GDP up.
The CBC is assembling their “experts” who will claim that Poilievre is all wrong and that these massive “investments” are actually great for taxpayers.
What? There’s a National Debt problem? Nonsense. Your Fascist government will simply seize private assets. You know that little retirement nest egg? Thank you … the government will seize it now.
Ran a couple of thought experiments on this idea.
1. This nest egg money is deferred income tax strategies, both gov’t and corporate (RRSP and RPP), that had incentives to create wealth for later in life as well as become taxable income from seniors drawing this money. This deferred income tax is coming due now for the majority of baby boomers. This is a substantial amount of tax income and would not be a good idea to remove it from the future stream.
2. The vast majority of this nest egg money is in portfolios of stock and mutual funds. This is said to be valued at C$2.4 TRILLION in 2022 (https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230623/dq230623b-eng.htm)
Even in Canadian dollars (US$0.756) that is a significant amount to remove from the market place. This would be catastrophic.
The one scenario I see possible that would hurt but not destroy the economy would be a removal of the RRSP and RPP designations and applying a flat tax against these types of accounts, while legislating a requirement that plan members could not remove the remaining funds from the plan, maybe offer a lower tax rate for these income funds at tax time.
The gov’t would get 10 or 15% of the funds, the market will take a big hit but will not be killed, pension holders would have no recourse.
The next hit would be TFSA, only the rich can afford to fund these to full and use them as investment tools so they are a “risk free target”. Require an audit of investment from the beginning, flat tax all gains and close the TFSA program.
The next would be a flat tax on property value.
BTW, Grams and I will take some pretty decent hits on these scenarios. Me more so.
RRSP seemed like a good idea at the time, defer tax on a chuck of income every year and stick it in an investment account to grow. Idea was to have it at a lower tax rate later. We’ll see.
That’s a whole field of economic, investment and political landmines that you’ve planted in that post. But, to take out one piece, could you explain what you mean in this part:
“while legislating a requirement that plan members could not remove the remaining funds from the plan”
RRSP has two classes, Personal RRSP and LIRA.
Currently in RRSP and RPP any plan that has employer contribution is locked in (LIRA) and cannot be taken as a bulk payment unless under certain restrictive circumstances. Controlled withdrawal.
Personal RRSP, such as one created by the taxpayer that does not have employer contributions, do not have the same restrictions. You can take out what you want, when you want, just pay the tax.
Under the scenario above, gov’t would put both types on the same footing and remove the ability to take out the what and when you want part and all would go through the same regulation as the RPP and LIRA rules: controlled withdrawal.
Basis for that thought is to prevent a full run on the market as large accounts try to run away after paying the flat tax. Technically you’ve paid the taxes on it and it should be available.
I could see the Lib and NDP really considering something like this.
Keep in mind this is all back of the napkin, blue sky thought experiments. Really broad brush strokes.
“That’s a whole field of economic, investment and political landmines that you’ve planted in that post.”
We’re not getting out of this without some major damage, somewhere.
The need is to control it.
Liberals do not believe in control, especially self-control. So while I respect everything you have said, self-control is not going to happen with the current regime.
Well they have been “controlling” things forever.
And here we are.
The skittish, unaccountable and corrupt elite won’t be able to honestly control sweet FK all that will benefit any backbone this country has lost.
The only “control” they care about is covering their backsides , and not losing site of their golden trough.
If enough elites find themselves thinking of a ledge high enough to jump off of , maybe then integrity might gain some traction in society .
So I wouldn’t bet on any GOOD governance of almost anything.
The left are losing what is left of their minds, so Pierre must of hit a factual nerve.
The message that came across was partially good (balanced budgets, restraint, etc) and that Chretien was good? for doing the nasty’s to bureaucrats and spending. The “Conservative” premise that leviathan is OK but it just needs to be better managed comes across. This is confirmed when politicians rationalize restraint in order to save our “precious social programmes”. Still, I don’t see hordes of voters running to vote for Max, unfortunately, so PP is the best of a bad electable lot. I wonder how they will get this to the masses, given the level of progressive institutional capture.
The problem is, it is much easier to state the problem than it is to address it. The drug user knows taking drugs is bad. He just can’t stop. Canadians have a problem with debt. I don’t see Canadians electing their way out of the debt problem. It will be crushed out of us, one dollar at a time. And people will hate PP for this. Probably be driven into the arms of Bob Rae.
Act 37 of Tory times are tough times will ensure the election of Canada’s youngest ever PM- Hadrian Trudeau.
I hope the CPC continues this educational series. Too many voters have no idea how things work or why problems happen. During the election, they should gove teaser highlights and then direct voters to the full informational videos.
The CPC should combine their educational message with a record of the Liberals “Greatest” Hits of Scandals album. From SNC Lavlin, WE charity, ethics violations, election interference, Chinese police stations, wild spending on taxpayer paid vacations, foreign affairs embarrassments, etc…the CPC has more than enough Liberal scandals to last an entire election campaign.
No siree Bob! I’m not voting for Pierre Poilievre!!!
Not once in this “documentary” did he mention the dairy marketing board. Just in case, /sarc.
I didn’t know this until fairly recently so I assume there may be others here at SDA who don’t. PP won a $10,000 essay contest in his second year university. This cat knows his economics.
This was an outstanding documentary.
“No siree Bob! I’m not voting for Pierre Poilievre!!!
Not once in this “documentary” did he mention the dairy marketing board. Just in case, /sarc. ”
Oh, no?… and did he also mention the residential school scam, or not?
He wisely did not mention the residential school scam.
Ya, I know the resolution was unamimous.
Unanimous includes PP.
Good for PP. He’s not in power. What would he have accomplished? Here’s what: lost votes.
Also he erred in going along with the smear against the EMP Andersen.
Personally, I did not like this, but really so what!! What does it amount to? Here’s what: a Hill of Beans. Not a hill to die on.
The entire production was pretty bad. The information contained was obvious and well known, the music was terrible and distracting, and the voice over was too monotone and low. 13+ minutes became like a marathon. Shorter, livelier, and more to the point info series would have a much larger impact. This is something only diehards would watch, which is a moot point because they already know.
The liberal voters are slightly dimmer than thair leader, so none of them will vote PP, ever.
What’s Rick Mercer got to say?
The same schtick.
Is Rick Mercer still on TV?
The debt bomb is a feature not a bug.
Rick Mercer thought an elected Senate was a stupit idea. Enough said about Rick Mercer.
Nothing is ever as it seems. For decades now we have, WE, allowed incompetent socialist/communist governments to run the country. WE have allowed this to happen. The die cast and things are going to fail because WE are very stupid. Rational intelligent people would have worked to prevent the destruction the day after WW2 ended.
Excellent ad but spoiled by the bizarre choice of music starting in the second part. And I told them – never hire a musician whose entire repertoire consists of 4 notes.
Never fear though, the ‘journalists’ are going to destroy Poilievre for this.
The idiot in charge is safe, the media cartel is working on it.
“Poilievre’s Conservatives are using the ‘selfie’ video to remake the Canadian political conversation”
https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/politicians-selfie-videos-poilievre-effect
It’s not a conspiracy when you have the facts.
What? Me Worry?
Whoo boy, the current government was sure prescient when they created and rolled out the MAID program. It’s almost as if they planned it!
No more desperate people leaping from buildings making a muss and a fuss, here’s a little pill, it will all be nice and clean and neat!
MAID was created to defuse the debt bomb. Its nickname is “Die Hard”.
… and now we wait to be informed on how Max has a better handle on what’s going on, and how to fix it.
Awww .. The budget will balance itself..
One of the main reasons Canada has been bringing in millions of 20 year old males.. They want them to be productive right away.. A socialist hail Mary pass that has worked out so well in Europe..
Maybe is not really a good plan.. But thats all we got..
“…the budget will balance itself ..”
Yes, left to itself, the budget will balance itself. It can take more than our lifetime with much ruin and suffering along the way.
They brought in a bunch of thirsty chumps who thought blonde girls would be begging to touch their weens. They inseminated some welfare queens and voila GDP up.
The CBC is assembling their “experts” who will claim that Poilievre is all wrong and that these massive “investments” are actually great for taxpayers.
What? There’s a National Debt problem? Nonsense. Your Fascist government will simply seize private assets. You know that little retirement nest egg? Thank you … the government will seize it now.
Ran a couple of thought experiments on this idea.
1. This nest egg money is deferred income tax strategies, both gov’t and corporate (RRSP and RPP), that had incentives to create wealth for later in life as well as become taxable income from seniors drawing this money. This deferred income tax is coming due now for the majority of baby boomers. This is a substantial amount of tax income and would not be a good idea to remove it from the future stream.
2. The vast majority of this nest egg money is in portfolios of stock and mutual funds. This is said to be valued at C$2.4 TRILLION in 2022 (https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230623/dq230623b-eng.htm)
Even in Canadian dollars (US$0.756) that is a significant amount to remove from the market place. This would be catastrophic.
The one scenario I see possible that would hurt but not destroy the economy would be a removal of the RRSP and RPP designations and applying a flat tax against these types of accounts, while legislating a requirement that plan members could not remove the remaining funds from the plan, maybe offer a lower tax rate for these income funds at tax time.
The gov’t would get 10 or 15% of the funds, the market will take a big hit but will not be killed, pension holders would have no recourse.
The next hit would be TFSA, only the rich can afford to fund these to full and use them as investment tools so they are a “risk free target”. Require an audit of investment from the beginning, flat tax all gains and close the TFSA program.
The next would be a flat tax on property value.
BTW, Grams and I will take some pretty decent hits on these scenarios. Me more so.
RRSP seemed like a good idea at the time, defer tax on a chuck of income every year and stick it in an investment account to grow. Idea was to have it at a lower tax rate later. We’ll see.
That’s a whole field of economic, investment and political landmines that you’ve planted in that post. But, to take out one piece, could you explain what you mean in this part:
“while legislating a requirement that plan members could not remove the remaining funds from the plan”
RRSP has two classes, Personal RRSP and LIRA.
Currently in RRSP and RPP any plan that has employer contribution is locked in (LIRA) and cannot be taken as a bulk payment unless under certain restrictive circumstances. Controlled withdrawal.
Personal RRSP, such as one created by the taxpayer that does not have employer contributions, do not have the same restrictions. You can take out what you want, when you want, just pay the tax.
Under the scenario above, gov’t would put both types on the same footing and remove the ability to take out the what and when you want part and all would go through the same regulation as the RPP and LIRA rules: controlled withdrawal.
Basis for that thought is to prevent a full run on the market as large accounts try to run away after paying the flat tax. Technically you’ve paid the taxes on it and it should be available.
I could see the Lib and NDP really considering something like this.
Keep in mind this is all back of the napkin, blue sky thought experiments. Really broad brush strokes.
“That’s a whole field of economic, investment and political landmines that you’ve planted in that post.”
We’re not getting out of this without some major damage, somewhere.
The need is to control it.
Liberals do not believe in control, especially self-control. So while I respect everything you have said, self-control is not going to happen with the current regime.
Well they have been “controlling” things forever.
And here we are.
The skittish, unaccountable and corrupt elite won’t be able to honestly control sweet FK all that will benefit any backbone this country has lost.
The only “control” they care about is covering their backsides , and not losing site of their golden trough.
If enough elites find themselves thinking of a ledge high enough to jump off of , maybe then integrity might gain some traction in society .
So I wouldn’t bet on any GOOD governance of almost anything.
The left are losing what is left of their minds, so Pierre must of hit a factual nerve.
The message that came across was partially good (balanced budgets, restraint, etc) and that Chretien was good? for doing the nasty’s to bureaucrats and spending. The “Conservative” premise that leviathan is OK but it just needs to be better managed comes across. This is confirmed when politicians rationalize restraint in order to save our “precious social programmes”. Still, I don’t see hordes of voters running to vote for Max, unfortunately, so PP is the best of a bad electable lot. I wonder how they will get this to the masses, given the level of progressive institutional capture.
The problem is, it is much easier to state the problem than it is to address it. The drug user knows taking drugs is bad. He just can’t stop. Canadians have a problem with debt. I don’t see Canadians electing their way out of the debt problem. It will be crushed out of us, one dollar at a time. And people will hate PP for this. Probably be driven into the arms of Bob Rae.
Act 37 of Tory times are tough times will ensure the election of Canada’s youngest ever PM- Hadrian Trudeau.
I hope the CPC continues this educational series. Too many voters have no idea how things work or why problems happen. During the election, they should gove teaser highlights and then direct voters to the full informational videos.
The CPC should combine their educational message with a record of the Liberals “Greatest” Hits of Scandals album. From SNC Lavlin, WE charity, ethics violations, election interference, Chinese police stations, wild spending on taxpayer paid vacations, foreign affairs embarrassments, etc…the CPC has more than enough Liberal scandals to last an entire election campaign.
No siree Bob! I’m not voting for Pierre Poilievre!!!
Not once in this “documentary” did he mention the dairy marketing board. Just in case, /sarc.
I didn’t know this until fairly recently so I assume there may be others here at SDA who don’t. PP won a $10,000 essay contest in his second year university. This cat knows his economics.
This was an outstanding documentary.
“No siree Bob! I’m not voting for Pierre Poilievre!!!
Not once in this “documentary” did he mention the dairy marketing board. Just in case, /sarc. ”
Oh, no?… and did he also mention the residential school scam, or not?
He wisely did not mention the residential school scam.
Ya, I know the resolution was unamimous.
Unanimous includes PP.
Good for PP. He’s not in power. What would he have accomplished? Here’s what: lost votes.
Also he erred in going along with the smear against the EMP Andersen.
Personally, I did not like this, but really so what!! What does it amount to? Here’s what: a Hill of Beans. Not a hill to die on.
The entire production was pretty bad. The information contained was obvious and well known, the music was terrible and distracting, and the voice over was too monotone and low. 13+ minutes became like a marathon. Shorter, livelier, and more to the point info series would have a much larger impact. This is something only diehards would watch, which is a moot point because they already know.