Ford: Don't soak the rich; jack up the GST to raise revenue fairly
(calgaryherald.com)
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Or, slash government spending by 70%, get rid of 80% of useless gov portfolios, stop subsidizing cbc, airlines, farmers, manufacturers, etc. End foreign aid and the un.
Fini!
Next problem?
ever wonder how China moved ahead so quickly ...and continues to move ahead to this very day?
Copying america before it got retarded.
Next unspoken problem in Mr. Traitorous Politician's mind: "How will my friends in high places get their skim? Everyone's going to turn on me, and I'll be toast. My 'foundation' will be toast too."
These fuckers are used-car salesmen, except they deal in 'connections' and 'tax-exempt foundations'. Very slimy.
Jesus Christ now Catherine Ford is trying to explain economics? Her dead wrong firearms articles, her “I travelled and the isolation hotel wasn’t bad” missed the point completely, and now she’s taking a stab at tax policy?
Yes, consumption tax is the most “fair” form of taxation. But the tards in Ottawa wouldn’t use the extra revenue to pay down the debt, they’d spend every penny of it and increase other forms of taxes too.
Are you American?
USA is the ONLY jurisdiction in the world w/o a consumption tax.
(Invoking the name Jesus Christ to make your point is a sure sign of desperation. Clearly Catherine's a whole lot more clever than you are.)
Where did I say anything about the USA or being American?
I’m talking about Ford, who’s weekly herald column is usually an unhinged rant.
Ford is smarter than you are.
I have no doubt about that.
What a stupid idea.
It's well known sales taxes disproportionately impact the poor and working class.
no. there are exemptions from the tax that level the playing field (medicine, schoolbooks etc)
I do not accept your 'expertise' or opinion
I went door to door with the Mulroney Tories on this tax and free trade.
Ignoramuses like you were outvoted. The tax came in.
The Reform Party now owns the Tories I knew.
I live in Alberta. Former Tories are surrounded by Reform Party people like Harper , the deserter/traitor. I do not recognize the party anymore.
Always have, always will.
And it worked just fine, despite the hollering, until another Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, cut the GST from seven to six to five per cent, where it has languished for 13 years, costing the Canadian government billions of dollars.
Harper ... the Reform Party traitor; it figures he'd be the one to piss in the pickles
f-ing traitor....