Moe, Smith — exactly what are we waiting for?
Unwilling to live within the tax revenues produced by the national economy, this government has borrowed more money in 8 years than all other Canadian governments combined since the nation was founded in 1867. This recklessness has doubled the national debt and created interest payments that are breaking all records – last year over $46 billion dollars and this coming year over $54 billion dollars. That is more than the federal government spends on the military, or healthcare. All of it taken from taxpayers to pay bondholders instead of being spent on public services.
Now, the centrepiece of their new budget is a capital gains tax targeting the few Canadian individuals and firms who invest in Canadian ventures or assets. This investment is what creates the new businesses and jobs and productivity the nation so badly needs.
It is bizarre to watch a morbidly obese and fiscally incompetent government propose – in the name of ‘fairness’ – to justify taking productive capital away from Canada’s small but critical investor class and hand it to the same bureaucracy that has for almost a decade shown they will only waste it.
Ten years of Harper’s fiscal restoration was laid waste by the Trudeau Liberals in the span of months. God Bless Poilievre, but he’s going to inherit a toxic stew of public debt and social entitlement that no amount of “common sense” can resolve. Extricating the economies of Saskatchewan and Alberta from this mess would be painful (of that there is no doubt) – but not doing so will be fatal.
If I ran Saskatchewan or Alberta I would be separating from this Shithole Country.
Blackface Trudeau and Garden Gnome Barbie Nazi Freeland should be banished from Canada, stripped of their Citizenship to live in exile like the CRIMINALS they are.
Destroying a Country from within has no criminal charge.
We must address this and punish the FILTHY LIBERALS and NDP for their Cultural Marxism Woke BS and targeting of law abiding citizens.
Don’t forget to include the slobbering lap dog media that promotes and runs cover for the Lieberals.
That’s Garden Gnome Perogie Thigh Nazi Freeland. We wouldn’t want to be accused of misgendering our frauleins.
And Freeloader has a better ring to it.
The cottage owners and people owning more than one property are in a real tizzy on the taxes coming there way.
https://www.greaterfool.ca/2024/04/18/the-redneck-tax/
No escape hatch is provided as our politicians munch on the funds trapped by real estate as sales have tanked by high mortgage payments too.
2024 is the perfect year for a separation referendum. Next best time will be anytime prior to the #Libranos returning to office, as they’ll be preoccupied with revenge.
I’m fine with the eastern provinces having to plant “victory gardens” so they don’t starve in the cruel Canadian winters, after AB / Sask. separate.
Not one government in my entire life ever reduced the cost or size of government during their time in office.
Chretien in the mid 90s was the closest. It seemed like we had an outbreak of fiscal sanity in the country for a period of a few years; deficit became a toxic word, and not just in Canada but also the USA, UK, etc. It only lasted until 2001, and then the USA gave up on the idea, the UK soon followed and Canada stumbled along for a little while pretending to be prudent until 2008 hit and then all pretense was lost.
We’re barreling straight toward an Argentine future. And I don’t mind the firebrand president they have now. I mean the 70+ years of mismanagement & economic sputtering (at best) they endured before him.
Chretien was still a Liberal scumbag.
Sask Party did when they first took office, reduced the civil service through attrition.
Yet it still expanded?
FREE SASKABERTA !!!
Just a slight correction, it was Mulroney who put the country back on track to get us out of financial servitude. Chretian, Martin, and Harper were smart enough to see this was a good thing and didn’t mess with it. It’s Trudeau that decided personal ambition superceded public good and blew nearly a generation’s worth of hard work and suffering on preening, posturing, and selfies.
Much like his father.
A correction to your correction: I wouldn’t give Mulroney too much credit. He and his finance minister, Wilson, merely pegged deficits to a percentage of gdp. Deficits stabilized but were still 25 to 35 billion per year during their terms. The continued spending reached a crisis after credit downgrades and the fear of the IMF stepping in to take over our finances, as happened to New Zealand. The Reform party helped to cajole and hector an unwilling Chretien and Martin into acting on the situation. Luckily for them, the public sentiment understood the gravity of the situation and the necessary medicine – Mike Harris in Ontario had to clean up the same sort of mess provincially left by successive Liberal and NDP governments.
Didn’t Chrétien the Cretin discover some sort of fiscal responsibility, when Paul Martin told him the government was having trouble borrowing money?
Juthtin’s goal was to transform Canada.
Why you westerners aren’t helping him do it is beyond me.
He hates your guts and would turn the prairies into a big game grassland with no people and no hunting – except for Indians.
But because he can’t rid himself of you, he’ll steal from you and, ASAP, freeze you to death.
So I don’t really want to hear all your cheap talk and see all your bold words because those who don’t help themselves are doomed.
A population that elects one Trudeau can be forgiven,mistakes happen.
Embracing a second,confirms a voter base too stupid to survive.
An aging population has gone along with “Free Stuff from Government” for decades..
And now?
We are broke, those with young families are expected to pick up the bar tab.
The extraordinary bill for services they will never see.
The West has no choice.
Separation of our affairs from these Fools and Bandits,has become a survival mandate.
And Treason?
What ,if anything,could our exalted “Leaders” have done differently?
If they wished to destroy Canada?
How does leaving an immense Public Debt, differ from Treason?
How does expanding the “Taker Class” differ from “Death to the Productive”?
By their actions you must judge them.
For we see professional liars everywhere,their words,their “Stated Intent” mean nothing.
Can Ahh Duh is The State of Thuggery.
Minions,just following orders..
With “The best of intentions” of course.
An Independent West.
Or a breakaway replica of why Canada failed?.
Will we do anything better?
Or will we pretend that “Welfare Socialism,did not work because those last guys where not doing it right”
And “This time we will get it right”?
I don’t see the painful bit, other than the loss of an emotional attachment to a Canada that never really was. economically it would be beneficial from the get go, as it stops the bleeding. The west has resources the world wants, all Ottawa does is get in the way, and when they can’t stop certain things they extract as much from it as possible. Get on with it.
We would be punished economically by Liberal allies in other jurisdictions, make no mistake about that.
It seems like the “new” balanced budget is $40 billion in annual deficits as the government swings away from a balanced budget goal to a 3% of GDP goal. Say hello to “sticky” inflation.
“There’s a monument that stands at the Alamo, it’s there not because they won…but because they fought.”
Free The West.
We are entering second world status, very soon to be third world at the rate we’re going. F me, it’s been a dizzying 9 years with dipsh*t in charge but man alive the last 2-3 years of decline makes your headspin.
The west needs out badly. Or I need to move my family to the mid-West US or elsewhere…
Canada should be, but an independent Alberta would be the envy of the World.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/case-alberta-independence-james-albers
2019. An Albertan of some repute on Alberta Independence; the mechanical, not the political:
On Federal Debt & Equalization: Alberta would be owed approx $490B at independence, but with zero likelihood of repayment they cede us BC and we call it even. Why would they agree to that? Because without the $14B extorted from Alberta every year they’d have to tax the rest of Canada to make up the difference; imagine telling Quebecers that they must pay back all they’ve been given. Actual riots. No chance.
To refine yesterday’s comment by MikeT April 17, 2024 at 11:16 pm (Strip Mining Investors):
Trudeau’s Tomato-Tomahto Budget: “you say economist and I say a communist”
Poilierve will not/cannot fix it, no more than Mulroney addressed the fiscal mess from Trudeau the elder. Expect more taxes, a worthless currency, and capital controls. Open borders will ensure that there is never a critical mass of the population to challenge the establishment. Move as much of your wealth out of the country while you can.
Louis Riel showed us what we’re all headed for.