Resolved: This Canadian Election is a tax grab

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Four elections in seven years topic

Thoughts?

Wages of democracy=more taxation topic

Democracy is very expensive. And if a minority government is returned, a new election looms. I can see a really wasteful pattern emerging here. What can be done? To get rid of Steve, we need to spend, and if Steve is returned, then it is money not well spent. Is this what democracy is all about? I think there is more to it, but others' opinions are needed.

Edit: fixed elections might be a way to go, though four years is a long time with Steve, though actually he has been with us five years!

Some blogs ihave been reading maintain that a fixed election, whether a minority parliament is sitting or not, is an incentive for that minority leader to make parliament work. This is what NDP leader Jack Layton maintained when his vote helped bring down the contemptuous Harper Conservatives.

Make your vote count topic

And whatever, do not waste your taxes. Remember to vote on May 2, 2011.

Well, i am going to vote, but not for Harper, and sadly, since i don't earn a wage, i don't really pay taxes (i don't buy much either), so i can't comment on that.

As I said to Sue, I am voting for the most convenient independent. While enacting my privilege to vote, I will take action in such a way that displeases all of the parties. My vote will serve to narrow the gap. My idea of smaller government is one that is a minority. While elections are expensive, minority parliaments coerce parties to make concessions with each other, giving Canada a better blend of what Canadians want.

Life and taxes topic

Thanks for all the replies.

@Phil777 I do not mean just income tax, I mean all the taxes: GST, HST, Electronics taxes, Property tax, Education tax, Taxi tax, and the like. It is our money, and it should be spent wisely.

Well, there are two possible prime ministers and each carries different fiscal implications.

The liberals will narrow the fiscal gap by reversing the corporate tax cuts (we already have lower marginal corporate taxes than any G8 nation, including the US, and we are among the lowest in the OECD.

The Conservatives are making deferred promises, but we will see the second coming, first. If the program is not sustainable now, it won't be sustainable then.

That being said, there is almost no fiscal difference between the two major parties. The Liberals' platform is about $6bn larger, but with corporate taxes that are still competitive, globally.

In those circumstances, my vote is most swayed by the "Harper Government's" cavalier attitude toward Parliament, the media and citizens.

Well, in my riding I have an incumbent Liberal, and an NDP candidate that I could never support. The incumbent's victory is far from assured (I live in one of the Globe & Mail's 50 ridings to watch), so fortunately the strategic vote and my natural political instincts run hand in hand. I will be voting for the Liberals, without reservation.

Even if I lived in a riding where the Liberal candidate's victory was assured, I cannot bring myself to waste a vote on the Greens or any of the fringe parties in circumstances in which the Conservatives could run up the middle (frankly, there's a lot of social conservatives in the Green Party, so I won't touch them until they start exercising some party discipline on abortion and gay rights).

I was in a different riding last time and I voted NDP (againts my political principles) because the Liberal had no chance of winning, but could well have split the ticket. My urge to keep the Conservative's out was far stronger than my urge to vote for my party of choice.

Hrm, i did heard regarding the Greens that they were against gay weddings. =/

Its proving a little tricky to find out who actually is running in my riding.