Who is paying for all the campagne ads? when this is all over, who foots the bill for this slandering of each other? Isn’t Canada supposed to be a country that sticks together and promotes unity among all creeds and nationalities? Perhaps the looser of this whole political race should pay for the complete cost of advertising and the slander of each other? I am guessing the we the tax payers end up paying for the whole shot, no matter which party wins. Also wanted to know who looks after the clean up of the signs that we all see along the roadsides and ditches accross Canada? If I were to throw out my garbage and someone found a piece of that sign/garbage, I would be fined for littering wouldn’t I. Or you for that matter. Not sying that they are thowing garbage in the ditch’s but again what about after the election?

Correct me if I’m wrong but I heard the other day that Liberal promises are adding up to about $60 Billion of new spending and the Green Shaft revenues will be about $40 billion so what kind of math do I use to calculate the promised Income Tax refund?

Did Dion ever mention that the Income Tax refund will be negative?

I am very concerned with the big spenders because the party that says it can give you all you want can also take away all that you have. I don’t want a governing party that promises to give my everything I want but only those things that I tuly need and cannot do on my own.

Give me the opportunity to create wealth as a free enterpriser and I’ll be happy to create more jobs and send you revenues that are not forced out of me.

I think it’s just more Liberal dissembling on the hustings reminiscent of famous promises in the past like “I will not impose Wage and Price Controls” and “I will cancel the GST and NAFTA”.

On top of the “Green Shaft” and $70 BILLION for municipalities, this stuff might even frighten Bob Rae!!

A chicken in every pot, indeed. Thinking Canadians aren’t so easily fooled.

The USA is probably the only major developed country in the world without some kind of official, visible VAT-type system of taxation. As an exporting country, the GST is good for us, versus the old maybe it is applied, maybe it is not, but if you export you are not going to get it back FST which rose up to 13.5% (under the Tories, if I recall correctly), with PST charged on the FST-included price.

Imperfect though it is, the FTA and NAFTA gave Canada much more “free” access to the world’s largest single homogenous market - something many developed countries would love to have.

Combine the GST and FTA/NAFTA and you have a powerful argument for why, in addition to being resource-rich, Canada has done as well as it has since the early 1990s. Only someone who is ignorant (a temporary state until they have knowledge) or stupid (a relatively permanent state) would want to get rid of this arrangement.

Speaking of resource-rich - what is Canada left with if/when the resource boom settles down - or bursts? Resources ARE cyclical, after all. I want to see our federal government have a plan for “Canada Inc.” to compete efficiently on a global basis. The higher Loonie is the easy target, but not ultimately to blame. Our system of taxation and infrastructure has us falling farther and farther behind. Who has some good ideas?

Here is the new, simplified income tax form for use under the next Liberal government:
1. How much did you make last year?
2. Hand it over.

The bottom line is that we are the most highly taxed country in the G-8. Are we getting value for your taxes compared to the other countries? I don’t think so. Along with the high taxes, we also give the gov’t a free reign in taking away our liberties. I agree also with Gordon Wusyk - the free enterprise incentives have been eroded by previous Liberal socialist laws, reform and propaganda. You have to LEAVE this country to see what is truly going on - most Canadians just don’t know and/or are not paying attention. Until THAT changes - we will continue to get the ’same ol’.

Has anyone noticed no one -press or politicians have the courage or guts to mention the $6 to $ 8 Billion a year spent on rying otr make Canadains bilingual while we do with third class medical. Medical also is being dual tracked with monies sent to all provinces ot up date it. The federal Govt. cut back our Medial payments form 50/50 to 80/20 and we jsut can’t afford to pay that much with the heavy tax load.
I would also like to point out we must NOT tell the world at our B.C. Olympics that we are a BILINGUAL country while the Nation of Quebec is still part of Canada and they restrict the use of Enlgish because of Bill 101.
When will we be honest and stop telling the world we are bilingual ,especially during the Olympics.
The French are working hard to be heard and seen during our B.C. Olympic Games . Chretein appointed his billionaire daughter Francis Desmarias on the Olympic Commission as soon as we got the award.
Dot Fuhrman

Hey, Dot Fuhrman, please proof-read before posting!!!

Canadians have only themselves to blame as they elected the idiots who, in the past, put us in this mess.

I thought NCC prided itself in being non-partisan.
No, I don’t endorse the Liberal platform.
But, I don’t recall hearing a lot of criticism from NCC about Harper’s spending.
Seems to me that he simply got all those promises out there earlier than the Liberals.
And, by the way, who is going to remind the voters that Stephen Harper has shown himself to be no less a phony than good old Pierre T. when it comes to living up to election promises.
It really is sad.
All politicians, it seems, cannot resist proving themselves to have no credibility.
Several years ago, Harper appeared to have promise. Unfortunately, it did not take long for him to succumb like all the others.

Did no one ever realize that when it comes to belt-tightening, all governments us bungee cords for belts!

When the G-arb & S-teel T-ax camr into effect, we were told “In five years it will be gone”! I argued this point with the presenter, commenting that ‘IF’?? it pays off our national debt, like it was intended to,’THEY’ would figure a hundred other reasons to keep it. Didn’t take the Liberals to realize what a cash cow it was either!
Ron

Earlier this week, Stephen Harper announced cuts to the tune of 45M$ in funding to the arts. This is a shrewd move because in doing so, he has made a connection with the vast number of Canadians who are fed up with their taxes paying for the mediocre and downright obnoxious dreck the so-called arts community regularly churns out. It is more offensive still when genuine Canadian talent like the Cirque du Soleil are dragged down to their level with the claim that they would never have gotten their start without taxpayer grants. It is doubly offensive to see these “artists’” sense of entitlement on display at their rally the other day in Quebec. The potential brilliance of Harper’s move was underscored by the appearance of the opposition leaders in support of the rally. They just showed the country who their most valued constituents are - and it ain’t you and me. The Prime Minister showed some of the old Stephen Harper I voted for two years ago. I hope he keeps it up into his next mandate.