Canadian Tax payers are getting a deal!

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Commie Bastards.

It is such a comprehensive topic that a few paragraphs hardly does it justice. That said Canadians are the envy of most of the world. We have a grand lifestyle. Great education. Decent health care.

The biggest waste of taxpayer monies is the bloated bureaucracy and the bureaucratic redundancies. If we could find a way to manage that we could have better services at a lower cost.

Yes most I don't believe understand how good they have it . The taxes you pay give you quite a bit . As you say Grumpy the goverment is the problem in most cases. Not that we don't need it just less people working for it .

remove the provinces from the picture.. have only civic and fed.. TADA!!!...

The CCPA is a bastion of socialism and I would expect nothing else from them. To say that we would be better off if the GST had NOT been reduced is typical of their thinking. More money that we can leave in the hands of the people who actually earn it is a good thing, because we can spend it and thats what keeps the economy moving.

I think maybe the point was a one or two percent reduction does almost nothing for the individual. What we need to do is stop creating NEW taxes...

Iggy says he'd raise taxes eh. Go Iggy!!

Commie Bastard!

Freeman wrote:The CCPA is a bastion of socialism and I would expect nothing else from them. To say that we would be better off if the GST had NOT been reduced is typical of their thinking. More money that we can leave in the hands of the people who actually earn it is a good thing, because we can spend it and thats what keeps the economy moving.

Well, yes and no. If we hadn't cut the GST we would be borrowing less money to pay for the stimulus (assuming they actually spend the money they claimed was going to be spent) but now we will be paying interest on the extra borrowed money rather than having the same amount of money generated from the GST but wouldn't need to pay the interest on it. So it depends in the amount we'll be paying in interest is more than how much the stimulus plan was reduced because of the extra money going into the economy due to the GST cut (would the plan need to be $1-2 billion higher to achieve the same results if the GST wasn't cut, or we would be running deficits for one year longer, etc). It's not just "we spend more money in the economy so everyone's happy" when we are dealing with an issue that causes us to bail companies out when other economies aren't spending money in ours. Much more complicated than that.

grumpy old man wrote:It is such a comprehensive topic that a few paragraphs hardly does it justice. That said Canadians are the envy of most of the world. We have a grand lifestyle. Great education. Decent health care.

The biggest waste of taxpayer monies is the bloated bureaucracy and the bureaucratic redundancies. If we could find a way to manage that we could have better services at a lower cost.

Let's not ADD to the bloated, unionized bureaucracy. How many Federal jobs will the Rights museum create?

Is that intended as a humorous post? Maybe work some on your humour. Or stick to concert reviews. You know, keep to your strengths.

No joke. And there are people on this forum who agree with me.

The only two job openings at the museum right now are bureaucractic ones.

A $25 million hole in the ground will have numerous bureaucrats in no time, rest assured Dean.

heh of that I have no doubt.