[Newsbot]

Title: Harper promises tax break for kids enrolled in arts activities
Category: Political
Posted By: Pimpbrewski
Date: 2008-09-29 09:52:56
Canadian

[tritium]

Talk about a flip flop, pandering for votes... shameful.

[Reverend Blair]

Yup, another reactionary, do nothing policy written on the back of a napkin.

[Pimpbrewski]

Actually, this sounds much better than to simply subsidize the ''spoiled'' artists themselves.

$1:

“We have a platform that increases support for culture but in a way that respects taxpayers money,” he told reporters Monday.

[mtbr]

He would have gotten a better response to today's announcement if he had promised to fund it by cutting the CBC budget by an equivalent amount.

[mtbr]

tritium tritium:

Talk about a flip flop, pandering for votes... shameful.

why is it a flip flop..my daughter wants to take piano lessons better spent on the youth than some piece of crap art like a frog in a blender or a jar full of Mexican jizz.

[robmik43]

....definitely better than subsidizing some hip-hop
roadie's crack....or buyying the groceries for some
weirdo who makes a nativity scene out of goats' assholes.

[Wada]

The word "nimrod" comes to mind.

[uwish]

Reverend Blair Reverend Blair:

Yup, another reactionary, do nothing policy written on the back of a napkin.

and Layton's massive spending initiatives that will bankrupt this nation are better r they?

how are those provincial NDP governments working out..

oooo they aren't

my bad

[ridenrain]

Sounds like a good idea.
Far better than Jihad jack's nationalize the arts program.
Parents know better for their kids than some bureaucrat in Ottawa, and now they can get financial aid for those programs. A far ways from the "beer & popcorn" crap the Liberals were spouting.

[kenmore]

Its a flip flop because.. he cuts funding to the arts and then to buy Quebecers votes he "In an apparent attempt to win back vital ground in Quebec, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper announced Monday he would provide a $150-million tax credit to help get kids interested in the arts." He is losing ground faster than lightening in Quebec because of the cuts and because of his wanting to send 14 yr olds to prison for life. Quebecers are cultural people who value the arts. his wish for a majority is going down the toilet as we speak..look for more bloc members in Parliament... screw the tories.

[Reverend Blair]

Ah, Conservatives. They hate anything that doesn't turn them an immediate profit. Oh wait, the arts has a huge economic footprint in Canada. Guess they just hate anything they don't understand...like music, literature, film, tv, sculpture...well pretty much everything except guns and greed.

[RUEZ]

Reverend Blair Reverend Blair:

Ah, Conservatives. They hate anything that doesn't turn them an immediate profit. Oh wait, the arts has a huge economic footprint in Canada. Guess they just hate anything they don't understand...like music, literature, film, tv, sculpture...well pretty much everything except guns and greed.

You make me laugh. Thank you.

[commanderkai]

Honestly, this is a great idea. Good for Harper.

[Apollo]

Chalk another one up for joe Canadian family.

Another reason to vote Conservative on the 14th.