Budget, budget, budget, that's all we are hearing lately. Let's spend like Liberals!
Really, think about it, the opposition has given us the opportunity to spend like crazy and they get to take the blame. If you had 30 billion to spend where should it go? The vault has been opened, and you are going to pay for it one way or another, so go on a spending spree.
Tax cuts should be first on the list and not some wimpy 1% off of the federal tax rate, that will not get maximum impact. What will get maximum impact, is income splitting. The Conservatives can bring in income splitting for everyone and fund the reduced taxes with that 30 billion. Plus, this is not easy to reverse once it is done. This is top of my list.
Infrastructure is a longer term project, but who can say no to better roads and bridges. This is next on my list. Let's spend 30 billion!
Equipment for our troops, and increased ability to monitor and protect our Arctic is my third choice.
Have I spent 30 billion yet? Probably.
Think about winning $1 million in the lottery, could you spend it? Sure, a new house, new boat, and new car would probably do it. Are you happy now? Do you have everything you ever wanted? Are you done demanding anything for the rest of your life? Not likely.
The old basic demand thing keeps getting in our way, you know things like food and clothing. Unlimited wants, limited resources. That's economics in a nutshell. That new computer you bought with your million, after a few years, it's obsolete, and ends up in the garbage. That's another basic economic reality, everything eventually ends up as garbage.
The Conservatives have won the lottery, the coalition has FORCED them into spending, so let's spend wisely. No national daycare allowed, that's an endless money sucking disaster just waiting for the Liberals to happen.
Where else should we spend that 30 billion? Think short term benefits without long term pain. It's our money, so let's maximize the gains and minimize the pain!
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I'd like to see tax cuts, and if we have to spend then create some construction projects that build some form of infrastructure that will be used for 30-40 years. Invest in LRT and other transit for outlying areas. Work with companies by offering incentives to hire workers. This actually might be a good time to invest in the energy sector.
I know a lot of Infrastructure needs to be built in our little National Park in western Manitoba.Also entrance fees need to be abolished for all National Parks . Then all Canadians could afford to visit them.
Infrastructure in the North, that meets 2 conservative goals.
Skilled workers laid off get relocation assistance if they move out of province to a job (sask)
Nobody spends more money than a mom (or dad), $100 per month for every child to age 12, raised from age 6.
That covers stay at home parents and low income earners that don't pay taxes.
When a laid off worker takes a lesser paying job, apprenticing, suppliment their income with EI for the first year training period, while they make the income adjustment.
Fay - you're a Manitoban!! I grew up in the 'Peg and still miss Manitoba. Are you talking Turtle Mountain, Riding Mountain or Duck Mountain? Of is there some other park which I have forgotten. I'll never forget the Peace Garden - I was there often and never grew tired of it.
Unambig - I agree wholeheartedly as long as the tax cuts are noticeable and not clawed back surreptitiously by some other surcharge or tax increase. I remember Martin's income tax cuts - yes, the income tax was cut but the surcharge was increased. That smoke and mirrors type of lie really pisses me off because he can say that income tax rates came down - technically true, and forget to mention the surcharge increase - deception and lies.
Wilson - you brought up a good point. During the entire Chretien reign of corruption, various groups (mostly women) lobbied the government for tax breaks for stay at home parents...all to no avail. For some reason, the LPC and NDP are stuck on "national affordable daycare" and completely ignore those parents (mostly mothers) who want to stay home and raise their children for the first few years.
Is it not bizarre that the parties which purport to be parties of the people totally ignore some of the people? Ya gotta wonder just how honest these parties are. Uh, I already know the answer. The LPC and NDP are just plain liars.
Interestingly, speaking of tax cuts, my husband just brought home his pay stub - the first of 2009 and guess what - his income tax deducted was down.
So I guess, for all those saying the Tories have no cut taxes are wrong.
But, A-Girl. Have you forgotten? Lowering taxes, according to thousands of experts and economists (Gayle's friends) is the wrong thing to do. And lowering the GST - gasp - what a bad move that was. Oh, the tragedy, the humanity. Panic in the streets.
Please tell your husband to return the income tax he didn't pay. Lower taxes are wrong, wrong, wrong.
Ha Ha EoE - but, but, but now that Iggy and Jack have come out "for" tax cuts and "against" stimulus I guess he can keep the tax cuts.
I was just pointing out to the fair weather Tories that seem to think that Harper has spent, spent, spent that he has actually given back as part of that spending. These are the people calling for his replacement as leader.
A bit O/T but I would be interested in what our Hamas loving friends think of this
"Last week CNN aired a heartrending videotape of a “dying” Palestinian child receiving “CPR,” ostensibly one more Gazan victim of Israel’s inhumanity. It was quickly blogged on by alert medical professionals as an obvious hoax.
The “war crime” was a stunt engineered or abetted by a Norwegian doctor, Mads Gilbert, who was filmed narrating the bogus scenario for the videographer, supposedly the “victim’s” brother, but in fact the owner of a Hamas-supportive Web site.
Gilbert is not your average do-gooder medic. A radical Marxist member of the Norwegian Maoist Party, he has supported terrorism against Israel for decades. Emblematic of a larger problem, Gilbert’s activism is funded by the Norwegian Aid Committee, in its turn funded by the Norwegian government."
They can read the rest of the article here
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/14/barbara-kay-on-scanndinavia.aspx
East of Eden, I am referring to Riding Mountain National Park. Under the Liberals our park was neglected. I am sure there were many National Parks that suffered major cutbacks.
A-Girl: do you mean that Jack and Micheal have come out of the closet? LOL.
Fay: I loved Riding Mountain. Coming over the hill, on the way up, and looking at Minnedosa at the bottom of the hill was such a breathtaking experience. Neepawa and Minnedosa - two real gems. As for Riding Mountain - well, I was young and we went up to Clear Lake to, uh, have a drink or two while camping? I barely remember the part because I and my friends were usually juiced for the entire weekend but we were sober when driving home. Someday, I want to return to Manitoba and see all the wonderful places and take in the summer-long festivals. I miss Manitoba - except for the mosquitoes. God, how I hated the mosquitoes.
Sometimes, in the summer, I'll hear people in the Ottawa area go on about the unprecendented mosquito epidemic and I kind of smile and turn away. If only they knew.
If they are going to "infrastructure" the civil service, I vote for hiring real live Canadians to answer the phones at Revenue Canada and how about a computer programmer that knows web sites who can redesign the Governments web pages? What a screwed up answering system they have.
I got a "wonderful" letter from UIC (I'm old and remember the ski team!!)stating that the monthly Hiring Form was now on-line and listed the login ID and Password. That didn't work so called New Brunswick to get instructions. Now they have a permanent "gateway error time out". No reporting for me this month.
"...his income tax deducted was down."
Did he notice that his CPP and EI payments went up?
"Lowering taxes, according to thousands of experts and economists (Gayle's friends) is the wrong thing to do. And lowering the GST - gasp - what a bad move that was. Oh, the tragedy, the humanity. Panic in the streets."
Do you have any links to where I said lowering taxes is wrong?
What I did say was that economists recommended lowering income taxes and increasing consumption taxes.
I am not sure if you keep misquoting me because you are too lazy to try and get it right, or you are too dishonest to try and get it right.
Direct quote from Gayle:
What I did say was that economists recommended lowering income taxes and increasing consumption taxes.
So, let me see, lower taxes, but increase the GST? That's what you just said. Now that sounds like Liberal logic, give with one hand and take away with the other.
Listening to economists can be dangerous to your bank account.
What I actually said Hunter was economists were recommending lowering INCOME taxes and increasing CONSUMPTION taxes.
You do know they are different - right?
And while I understand you have an opinion that differs from the many experts in the area, I hope you will forgive me for listening to the people who know what they are talking about.
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