angrypenguin

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It's not bragging when ti's a statement of fact. You're the one throwing invectives.

Wow. You're entitled to your own opinion but not the facts. But yeah, sure, if that helps you sleep at night. Seems like you need a bottle of high priced wine from Ontario thanks to your support of all things tax! I guess this is how it works eh? Just go for a personal attack just so you can feel better about yourself. *golfclap*

Does this affect all aluminum and steel? For example, aluminum is in deodorant. Will the price shoot up too?

Not sure why you're so pissy, but I'm not threatening to leave, I've left. Just finishing up the last of my move. You lefties don't get any more of my tax money, and actually about 13 or 14 of us have left Canada in the last year, all 1%ers. Enjoy your sanctuary province.

You're right re: that other guy, but he does bring up good points against Eric Grenier. We'll have to see who is more accurate on June 7th That said though, for the CBC, it dropped as low as 70% at one point, but I don't know how to pull up historical numbers and it's one of the reasons i've been copying and pasting the results on a daily basis in our thread here

I don't get your seemingly weak attempt at a shot at me. I did shut up, by pulling out of Canada. Basically the left wingers have been telling me to shut up and pay my taxes, or get out. So I got out.

How is that a worry if you're earning > 42,000 which is the tax bracket that he is targeting?

Not quite. http://www.tooclosetocall.ca/2018/06/how-much-uncertainty-is-there-in-this.html

Updated today: 82.9% Probability of the Progressive Conservatives winning a majority 4.9% Probability of the Progressive Conservatives winning the most seats but not a majority 7.8% Probability of the NDP winning a majority 3.3% Probability of the NDP winning the most seats but not a majority

This is pretty sexist Wait for it....

Yeah. This is not to provoke anyone, and is ONLY A STATEMENT of fact, but election outcomes would be very very different if women were not allowed to vote.

Do you have a photo?

Thanks, and yes, ditto. I'm a NP reader myself and I do often read The Star, for balance sake too.

I think I finally figured out why we're off. I suspect it's my fault as I didn't set the timeframe appropriately in my OP. I have been looking at a period of about 1-maybe 8 years. You're looking deeper into the realm of history. It was, what, maybe 8 years ago that Britain was under Conservative rule? Since then, that has changed. I can't remember the last time a Conservative party led any EU country, and any Asian country (again, within the last 8 years).

Ouch.

Days like this make me hate women. You want equality, fine, happy to support it, but you better not be a hypocrite about it, and that's why I hate days like this.

Can you please elaborate why you feel the world has drifted to the right? If you are referencing economically, I don't really see this. The UK/France/Germany and almost all of the EU countries have drifted left. Canada is drifting left. Yes, the US is drifting right after drifting left for several years, but all up, I don't agree with you that the world is drifting right, but maybe I'm missing something. Here are a few countries that have also been drifting left: Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, off the top of my head.

Sorry, I have no knowledge of what The Rebel is. Far right newspaper or something?

1) There is indeed a fiscal far right in the US that believes in lowering taxes and small government, as well as lowering spend, and I believe it's called the Libertarian party. I do not believe this exists in Canada, but the federal Conservatives have definitely championed it. Under the Harper government, the number of government employees and spend on public servants was the lowest it had ever been. Yes, they had to spend to get out of the recession, but that was only due to the opposition forcing them to. If it weren't for the 2008 recession, the Federal Conservatives would have certainly demonstrated what we want them to. 2) As far as the NDP goes, they would be taxing people like me. I've already discussed this in another thread which is why I'm in the process of moving to the US. You want to keep on taxing the so called rich, fine, we're gone, and now what are you left with? Take a look at the UK - it's scary, to me, how poor the poor keep on getting, and how the rich just keep on leaving. When you erode the so called alleged "right" for the rich to keep their money, you lose them, and thus you not only lose your so called benefits, you lose your job. Like I have said a thousand times, I'm for progressive taxation, but my limit is 50% top marginal tax bracket. It seems obscene to me that you or people who support your beliefs that despite you want us to give up more than half of our $ at that tax bracket, especially since those who collectively make >$50K a year pay 88.4% of all income taxes in Ontario. I don't mean to be "inciteful" here, but bear with me here. In your opinion, the straw that breaks your back is that you see the rich keep on getting richer, and you're tired of people like me apparently raking it in. And in my opinion, the straw that breaks my back is that you keep on asking me to pay more and more tax and yet I get little to nothing out of it, so once you push me too far, I'm gone. As I have said several times, going too far left or too far right is wrong. Pure capitalism or pure socialism is wrong - history has demonstrated this. Moderation is key, and IMHO we've gone too far left, and since the left tells me often "leave, or shut up and pay your taxes". Well, ta da, gonzo. #sorrynotsorry

Let's see if you have any knowledge about the pros of these free trade agreements. Do you have any idea how Canada benefited, and if so, I encourage you to list them, because otherwise you're just ranting about one side of the fallout of said agreement.

I used to be a FAR right fiscal conservative (I have no real qualms of anything socially wise). I am more of a center right fiscal conservative now. I believe in progressive taxes, and I do believe that the rich should pay more. The top marginal tax bracket should not exceed 50%, and we should fund things like social housing (not to the extent it is now in Ontario though - e.g. forcing landlords to provide air conditioning when it's >26'C out? - seriously?!. I do believe in funding a good education system for society, and perhaps even supporting and improving subsidized University schooling since that is a possible investment as those kids will end up paying more in taxes one day - but we shouldn't be funding everything. This post isn't meant to cause a discussion as far as my own viewpoints go, but just an illustration to how I've changed now. So I'm curious, has your political viewpoint changed over time, and if so, what has changed?

Ding ding!!

It's helpful in a debate to not introduce words that aren't actually words.