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All-Day Kindergarten isn't education, it's daycare. It's funny the PC's eliminate Grade 13 to save money and McDalton creates an new grade at the beginning to remove that savings.

Then why area they in a $16 billion deficit? And yet they're willing to spend more to ensure 4-year-old's get free daycare all day. So reality programming on Slice, Anything on TVO and Being Erica is more important than the second largest agricultural sector in the province?

Yes because you think a government that spent double the rate of inflation since they got elected is that smart. What like every TV program, movie, or music album produced in Canada? It'll say this, your opinion is in the vast minority. Polls have shown that OLG plan is rather unpopular. What probably will happen is that individual deals will have to be cut with each of the track owners and the OLG. If the OLG refuses to make a fair deal with each track owner the OLG will probably lose the use of the track.

So money that goes to hiring public servants (for whatever reason) Good Gambling Revenue that goes to investing in a prosperous industry: Bad By you're logic the $1.1 billion that the CBC gets should be yanked too right? http://value4money.ca/horse-racing-economics/ The evidence is there that the program creates more wealth than it takes. So anyone that opposes the program is just ideologically opposed to the industry itself.

But these tracks are privately owned. So why should the OLG expect that they can use someone else's property to make money and not give them a cut? Under this program 5% of the host municipality got money too, was that wrong?

Well again I ask. Would you oppose the racetracks installing their own slots and taking 100% of the revenue?

It's not a subsidy. It's a share of the slot revenue. The industry will be able to survive at big tracks but smaller tracks won't. And the profitability of the industry will be hurt if the purses have to be reduced. Thus lowering investing by potential horse owners many of which are from south of the border. They invest money into private sector jobs in this country. A subsidy is what College students get for Liberal arts programs and what people that produce green energy at far higher than the going rate. No tax-payer funds go into this program.

It'll end up costing the government more money. The racing industry generates $1.1 billion in government revenue. And plenty of private sector jobs will be lost. So the government will be on the hook for EI and Re-training for those that lose their jobs. I don't think you've done any research on this issue.

There's a huge debate about it. Both opposition parties oppose OLG plan because it's both stupid and greedy.

No it won't. Let's say you cut CEO salaries in half. How much do you venture that saves? I don't disagree with the sentiment, but don't act like it will fix our problems. Marijuana is effectively de-criminalized for that fact. Simple possession is rarely dealt with. Just Grow-Ops. Under a legalized system Grow-Ops would be illegal as well, you can't grow and sell tax-free MJ when the government wants to tax it. Of course your ideas for eliminating the budget haven't been tabled in yesterday's budget. Instead of annoying messageboarders with your ridiculous opinions here you should share them with our equally ridiculous premier.

Yes because regulating a handful of of CEO's salaries will eliminate a $15 billion deficit. You really don't know the difference between the responsibilities of the federal and provincial government do you?

You know you really can't debate this issue properly with me or you would have in the thread where I brought it up. The money they receive to bolster their purses isn't a tax-payer subsidy. If the racetracks could install their own slot machines and take 100% of the take they would. Governments can't handle competition though. They only like people to donate their money in the name of gaming if it goes into their pocket.

They contribute more to the economy than they take from the government.

Why are they continuing to give Liberal Arts University students a 30% discount on their already subsidized degrees. It's my civil right to study communications for four years on the taxpayers back damnit!!!

I like how he the two largest ticket items on the Ontario bill is Healthcare and Education and both are pretty much left alone. But we gotta stick it to those hardworking horseman!

The understanding of sarcasm is weak with this one.

Who's saying it should be equal?

Meaning it's an irrelevant point. Football is the number one sport in the US. It's not a surprise that the likely hood of criminal behaviour is higher in those sports than any other. But as I previously noted, much like the victims of murder in the US and Canada, there's an overwhelming racial make-up in the percentage of the people that commit those crimes.

BTW what's your thesis BD? Because Football is a violent sport it breed criminals? What about Offensive players? Unless there is a turnover they aren't called to be violent at all. Could it be that giving people from under privileged backgrounds obscene amounts of money can cause problems? Do you have evidence of boxers and MMA fighters committing crimes all over the world. Those are amongst the world's most violent sports.

Those guys didn't commit any crimes. Brett Favre sexted someone, if that was a crime horny teenagers everywhere would be in jail. Big Ben was never charged with anything. He was suspended because of the appearance of bad judgement. Even if he did rape someone, you got one guy. Wanna talk about Kobe Bryant? Sean Peyton was suspended for the season for overseeing a bounty program, He's not a player and he didn't commit a crime.

You're clearly racist. Check the racial make-up of those 500 players. How many Black guys play in the MLS?

Who else is going to make an offer? C-Migs? a fleet of Canook Saab Griffins? The North American Eurofighter?

Wow this post shows you have absolutely no clue. F35 issue was on the table a year ago and didn't hurt the federal Tories. No polls have shown the robocall scandal has hurt the Federal Tories. But we're talking about the Provincial Tories. You do know that even though the Liberals almost got a majority regarding seat count they only had a 2 percentage point lead on the Tories in the October election. FPTP FTW. Let's talk about the Provincial Liberals. ORNGE, an very unpopular OLG plan, the fact that yesterday he said he'd legislate a pay freeze on public service unions. McDalton will prove to be very unpopular. Especially considering he really didn't cut a whole lot out of the budget yesterday. That being said I would be surprised if the government falls over this budget. It's actually a rather limp-wristed budget. Other than the OLG plan which is an embarrassment to the government there really isn't much here to get worked up over. I think a better time to make this government fall is next year.

You can see tits on the interwebs at a moments notice.

Sorry fans are clearly the craziest fans of any sport. Remember the Columbian player that got killed for an Own Goal in the 1994 World Cup. Never heard of a Hockey Game, Football Game or an MMA match that had to be played in an empty stadium because the fans would attack each other, otherwise.