federal election - who are you voting for

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AdRath said:
Whats gross is your desire to double down on the most corrupt government in Canadian history. Taxation returned to citizens in services is a good thing. Taxation funned into breaks for multi-national companies while services are being cut is not. My priorities lie in supporting local and community and not helping another company record record profits while cutting worker benefits and moving production out of country.
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Right, the Fed Libs will be so different than the Provincial Libs we so enjoy right now...........
 
AdRath said:
Whats gross is your desire to double down on the most corrupt government in Canadian history. Taxation returned to citizens in services is a good thing. Taxation funned into breaks for multi-national companies while services are being cut is not. My priorities lie in supporting local and community and not helping another company record record profits while cutting worker benefits and moving production out of country.
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Chretian is back?
 
Duh JT ain't gonna stop there. he's gonna legalize the marijuanas and the country's gonna go to *****.
 
Every time I hear JT on the radio I hate him just that little bit more. He's got that fake outrage going on like no tomorrow. He's eliminated. Gone. Done. Hey wait a minute, howcum gone and done don't sound the same? Now I'm really mad:angry5:
 
Boots said:
he's gonna legalize the marijuanas and the country's gonna go to *****.
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For or against it the data from Colorado seems to be a a tax win fall. Obviously costs associated with prosecution are down as per second bullet below. It would be ideal if society didn't use drugs or alcohol but the reality is, people will.

- Colorado collected $63 million in tax revenue and an additional $13 million in licenses and fees on $699 million of combined medical and recreational pot sales in 2014.
[FONT=TiemposTextWeb-Regular, Georgia, serif] - [/FONT]Since 2010, marijuana possession charges (not including Denver) are down nearly 80%, marijuana cultivation charges also dropped nearly 80%, and marijuana distribution charges are down over 97%. Of course, the number of marijuana possession charges in Colorado courts is where we saw the most overall decline in terms of sheer numbers of people no longer prosecuted.


 
I find the support for Harper comical. It is based on a past perception of what the Conservative party should do and not what it is doing.

The Harper government is a propaganda king and has been using tax dollars to fool tons of Canadians.

This is election is not about who we elect. It is about getting the Harper government and his band of crooks out of power (notice I didn't say conservative)

At our next opportunity if the Conservative party regroups and starts to stand for good policies then vote for them and whomever is their non Harper leader back in.

All I am saying is Harper needs to go. Pick the next strongest candidate in your riding, the next government hopefully passes proportional voting system to help us get a proper political system.

I am voting for whoever has a shot to get Harper out, because he runs his own policies to ensure his stay in power and doesn't stand for the betterment of our country. Not because he is supposedly conservative.
 
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Here are some unemployment rates from around the world. Canada 7.1%, UK 5.6%, US 5.4%, Japan 3.3%, Korea 3.8%, Germany 4.7%, Norway 4.3%, Mexico 4.4%, Australia 6.1%, New Zealand 5.9%, G7 total is 5.9%--this is the most important one, if Harper's claims are true, why is the G7 total so much better than ours? Numbers are harmonized, before the Harperistas here start whining...

Interesting enough all these countries have corporate tax rates basically equal to ours (some maybe 1% lower) and higher. In the higher category: Germany, Norway, Japan, Australia, New Zealand... None of these are race to the bottom, they have higher corporate taxes and good paying jobs. Add to this China, Mexico, USA and many others that our jobs are going to also have dramatically higher corp tax rates than we do.

Then there are also some western counties like Ireland that have less than half our corp tax rate yet 9.5% unemployment...

Plotting all the western democracy data I can find, the trend is lower unemployment in jurisdictions with higher corp taxes. There are some exceptions like France of course, but they are very few and far between (and we know the issues there have nothing to do with taxes).
 
Raise corporate tax until only the beach bums are unemployed. And then back it off a scosh.
 
inreb said:
Raise corporate tax until only the beach bums are unemployed. And then back it off a scosh.
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Raising it 4 or 5% would be the right economic answer, we would be on par with most of our competition and still 10% lower than most of the USA. We could then bring back actual R&D tax credits to help innovative companies lower it, the Conservative have all but crushed these. Then provide tax breaks for employing people on a sliding scale geared to a business's net income so that real small businesses that employee people get a big break but single person corporations don't. So on and so forth...

The idea is to set a higher bar and then reward companies that hire Canadians and invest in Canada with tax breaks so they can lower their corporate tax rates. Companies that just leach off the system or single person corporations set-up to avoid paying taxes, well they pay at the higher bar. Make everything offshore and sell it here, you pay higher taxes. Make it here and sell it here and around the world, you pay less...

I could fix this, Harper can't. Liberals and NDP are just less broken or less worse than the current guy.
 
Im voting Harper out.

That is all.
 
I was joking lol. But I know in the first year it brought in a lot of tax.

Went to my mailbox today and I got like 4 pieces of paper attacking JTS marijuana policy from Julian fantino . Ripped them up and tossed them in between the mailboxes.

The mail was in like dark red writing with teenagers smoking pot on it. Fear mongering is a PC specialty. Making a big deal out of nothing.
GunZ McGraw said:
For or against it the data from Colorado seems to be a a tax win fall. Obviously costs associated with prosecution are down as per second bullet below. It would be ideal if society didn't use drugs or alcohol but the reality is, people will.

- Colorado collected $63 million in tax revenue and an additional $13 million in licenses and fees on $699 million of combined medical and recreational pot sales in 2014.
[FONT=TiemposTextWeb-Regular, Georgia, serif] - [/FONT]Since 2010, marijuana possession charges (not including Denver) are down nearly 80%, marijuana cultivation charges also dropped nearly 80%, and marijuana distribution charges are down over 97%. Of course, the number of marijuana possession charges in Colorado courts is where we saw the most overall decline in terms of sheer numbers of people no longer prosecuted.
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I couldn't give a crap about the drugs issue apart from the fact that I don't think there's enough measures in place to stop/deter people driving while high.
 
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