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I think you are picking at straws with that one. I just re-watched it. He wasn't objecting to the demonstrating, he was mocking the subject of their demonstration.

I've watched the video twice and didn't pick that one up. I guess to my mind that wasn't anywhere near as significant as the numbers. I'll go back and watch it again.

Can you expand on that thought?

I have managed to fact check a couple of the numbers he spouts, and they check out.

Are you really still hoping for perfection in any part of your life on this earth?

Have any of you seen this video called Eat the Rich?

So? Do we restrict parties on some artificial basis, or just keep our first past the post?

I would assume that these are national numbers, so Duceppe's low numbers aren't surprising. I'm sure a Quebec only result would be much different, while the Greens are supposed to be national.

Could you define "instant runoff voting" please.

OK. I think taxing companies is silly. They are there to make a profit. Tax them and they just raise their prices so you and I pay. Don't tax them and they have more money to invest in expanding, which leads to more jobs and more GDP for the country and all kinds of other good things. Plus, the more jobs means more taxpayers and other good things. And I am against rewarding failure. I'm not in favor of shutting down all welfare, but dag-nabit, we need to be way more judicious in how we throw money around. Yes, there are cases of real need, and real misfortune, but there are also lots of cases of lazy-assed buggers and buggerettes just playing the system. And with all due respect to my maritime friends, come on - there are no jobs there. Don't spend your life on the dole, paid for by me and punked. Move to where there are jobs. EI isn't early retirement. I could go on quite a bit more but my blood pressure is rising.

I don't hate taxes. Taxes are needed for policing, the military, roads and a bunch of other things. But I am very sure your feeling on who and how to tax, and how to spend and mine are very different.

What part of fiscally conservative don't you understand. If I was dictator, the first thing I would do is eliminate all business taxes.

I am fiscally conservative, but socially moderate, I guess. So please label me.

Where on a political bias scale would you people (dang, all the other forums I visit are male dominated. nice to see lots of ladies here but using "people" rather than "guys?") rate Don Martin?

Interestingly enough, an aquaintence of mine, (note I didn't say friend) did exactly that. There was some tax deal I don't understand where if he lived in Bermuda for two years and a day he escaped a whole bunch of Canadian tax. He was the major owner of a company that was sold for multi-millions of dollars. So he did it, and saved a big bunch of money, but hated it. Basically he admitted to me that he lost two years of his life. Bermuda is a small island. He analogized it to being in a luxurious prison.

More reason to dump on liberals.

As soon as I saw the orange and the NDP banner I closed the page. Real unbiased opinion there.

I'm not busting your chops but am seriously interested. Where did you get that data. Surprisingly enough I could probably find it for the US easier than for Canada.

Stimulus spending is a tenant of Keynesian economics. But again, I reference my post above. That is only half of Keynesian economics. Everyone forgets the pay-back half.

Actually it's easy. You incorporate in the country of your choice. Sell your Canadian company to the foreign one. Some problems transferring the cash but that's what you pay accountants for, it can be done.

This is something the UK government took the longest time to understand. They had these hellacious tax the rich rates, so as soon and an athlete or an entertainer got successful, they left. 15% of $2,000,000 is way more than 90% of zero.

The US board I visit has many Democrats constantly praiseing Keynesian economics and using that as justification for TARP et al. The problem is that they only believe in half of what Keynes said. The part about the government should spend big in bad times. He also said that the government should pay off the loans big in good times. It seems Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives and Liberals (except for Paul Martin) forget that second part all the time.

I agree with you entirely. Single payer, yes. Single provider, why? But the left and the unions (am I being redundant?) are so against this. They forward a slippery slope argument that has no sense at all, IMO. I think they are just afraid of having their inefficiency displayed if they have to compare to an intelligently publicly funded but privately provided health care system.

Skimming a variety of sites when I "googled us deficit" shows a US debt of $14.3T on the national debt clock, but others have it at $8T. I wonder if the 14+ number includes the SS/Medicaid liability? The deficite numbers also varied from $800B to $1.6T. Sort of like the annual report of a large company. Lots of ways to play with numbers.

I absolutely concurr. Another problem is that it would just about guarentee consistent minority governments and combined with our non-confidence situation, elections every 6 months. (OK, OK, a little hyperbole there, but you know what I'm saying.)