It was really not that long ago when the NDP was in charge of the BC government and was fast putting the province into the ” have not ” catagory. I wonder how long it would take “Talaban Jack” to do the same for Canada.

Just what else did you expect from Taliban/Jihad Jack
Hard left professors like Jack just dont understand money but have no problem spending yours.

Just what else did you expect from Jack
Hard left professors like Jack just dont understand money but have no problem spending yours.

I hope Canadians can see the true nature of the NDP - THey are NOT democratic other than the vote. They tax the rich to give to the poor - which is fine IF the poor did a) work to improve themselves and not believe it is their God Given Right to receive free money (which the the NDP profess) b) the corporations that already are the largest job creators in the country can live with lower profits etc. This could drive them ‘out of the country’ which is what the mfg and auto sectors did with their unions - demanding more for less - from companies. These companies either went ‘overseas’ or ‘under’ as is happening to the auto industry. Jack Layton has poor economic sense or knowledge. I hope Canadians are smarter then he is. Over taxing the rich is NOT an economic solution - it is a disaster.

I remember all too well the Bob Rae days in the early to mid 1990s. I also remember living, unfortunately, in Bob Rae’s riding back in those days. At least two social spending (housing) projects pushed through effectively cost me tens of thousands on what was value in my home at the time. Fortunately, I recovered in a subsequent move to Oakville. I wish I still lived there.

I hear the new NDP radio aderts, obviously targeted at seniors because it focuses on income trusts and people who “lost over 20%” of their retirement money “because of ‘Harpernomics’”.

I guess too many Canadians don’t like having their opinions debunked with facts. When the largest Canadian companies say they’re going to become income trusts and no longer pay corporate tax, SOMEBODY has say “we need to do something about this”. The best “conservative” Finance Minister in memory, Paul Martin Jr., would likely have done the same thing Jim Flaherty did.

When it comes to spending, this country needs LESS of it. What we do spend, we need it to be very efficient and tactical. Our (federal) bureaucracy needs to stop growing and spending on it held to no more than the rate of inflation.

People want to hear what they want to hear (spend, be bought with their own money), not what is necessary. Even “good” times call for tough choices. Time to make some, Canada. Given what the Green, Liberal and NDP parties as planning for spending, that leaves but one choice for the overall financial health of our great country. Think carefully before you vote.

Surely no one takes this guy seriously!!

Without a fundamental change in our immigration laws and admittance procedures, and if Jack Layton gets his way, Ontario will become a magnet for attracting free-loaders and welfare recipients from throughout Canada, and refugees from throughout the world. How will their lucrative benefits be paid for, and by whom? Another consequence would be the biggest baby boom growth ever witnessed anywhere!

I am encouraged by the intellegent responses on this site - thank you all - LG

Someone should ask Talaban Jack where he is going to find 36,000 people willing to change dirty, stinky diapers to fill all those daycare places.

What does JL think of his supporters? That they are of low intelligence?
Tax corporations more, fine corporations more and they will absorb those extra taxes and fines? Yeah right, they get passed on to the consumer, be they wealthy,middle income, or poor, so the “extra” they get will still not buy all the things they want/need. Somebody has to pay for a profit driven corporations that supplies the goods we purchase, and the jobs we need.

WHAT IS WRONG WIYH THIS PARTY ? THEY HAVE BEEN AT 18 % FOR 100 YEARS ! NO WONDER WITH THIS SORT OF INSIGHT !! HE MAY BE HONEST ETC , BUT NOT TOO GOOD WITH HIS THINKING !

Mad-Jack, doesn’t just “tax the rich” this is what people fail to understand about the NDP, they want to tax everybody and even the poor.
Layton is offering in his platform to fund daycare for families that earn up to one hundred eighty eighty thousand dollars a year, NET.
This guy spends even more money than Stephen Harper but still on the backs of those who can least afford to pay.
Mad-Jack can not tax businesses as much as he says so the money has to come from somewhere, you and me, rich or poor.

I agree with the comments above for the most part, but I’d like to add that, on top of driving corporations out of Canada, those that stay, will have to increase their prices to compensate for the bigger tax-grab. The result is an increase in costs that only the poor cannot afford!

So much for the NDP protecting the poor!

I agree with all the comments submitted re Mad Jack. However Dion spending ideas are just as bad, Elizabeth May’s are way out in left field and Stephen Harper’s are not much better. How can a voter cast a ballot that says clearly “STOP SPENDING MY MONEY!” If anyone can answer that I will be very greatful!

I hope during the debates coming up this week, that someone will expand with details showing how Jack Laytons plan to NOT LOWER Corporate taxes will drive many corparations right out of our country , resulting in much reduced tax revenue- and dooming his geve aways before he can get started.

When I heard of Taliban Jack’s prescription I too had a flashback to Bob Rae in the nineties. More spending and higher taxes, chasing jobs out of Ontario. Bob Rae is now a Liberal “star -candidate!” Ujjal Dosanjh (failed Premier of B.C.) is another one. Like Trudeau, they know the NDP isn’t going anywhere, Jack hasn’t caught on to that yet.

Why is it that left-wired brains can’t think straight? Blinded by ideology I guess. My Dad explained socialism to me when I was in my teens, in the forties after WW2. It boiled down to “making water run up-hill” and “spending money you don’t have.” I have been a “free-enterpriser” ever since.

My definition of “lefties” : “If they had the brains to understand how stupid they are, they’d go insane.”

I am always puzzled at how we are going to eliminate poverty if it is defined as a income relative to the Canadian average? There will always be a bottom 25%.

Layton says raising corp. taxes wont hurt the banks and oil companies.
He’s right! It wont take one nickel off their after tax return. It will hurt their
customers,like struggling manufatures,farmers and seniors. Trouble is the
puplic does’nt understand this,so Jack can run his con. NCC is not helping
by failing to point this out.

“In today’s difficult economic times this country needs a government that will rein in unnecessary spending, keep taxes low and do all it can to tighten its purse strings. ” Well, where is that party or leader. None of the parties will deliver on this ideal…Public sector employment has risen 6.1% between July 07 to July 08 while private sector employment was up only 0.5%…How does any governments justify continually hiring more people than the private sector?
Remember, as Mike Savage has confirmed, “Liberalism is a mental disorder,” and we have far too many liberal thinking people in the current political parties in Canada.