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No, it will get passed on to the consumer, meaning more money out of my pocket.
But they haven't had a cut yet...that happens with their next returns. If they raise their prices by two percent because they have to pay the same as they did before, that pretty much proves Jack's point.
Also, they aren't known for passing the savings on, and your theory is dependent on them having dropped consumer prices by the same amount they got in tax breaks. These are the same guys who raised their prices when the GST cut came and took forever...in many cases are still taking forever...to pass on the benefits of a higher dollar.
Don't blame Layton for the corporations ripping you off...they've been doing it since the invention of corporations.
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Students can get a job and pay for their education like mine did. It also teaches them how to budget and not live beyond their means.
Except post-secondary education is expensive and jobs that pay enough to cover it are few and far between. Your elitist roots are showing.
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Single parents can get their childs father/mother to help pay then. I paid for my childrens child care and it wasn't cheap, but we managed.
Okay, I'm not sure alternate universe you live in, but that's just stupid. There are a lot of cases of deadbeat dads out there. There are a lot of people who are single parents because their spouses died or were incapacitated.
I know you, from your little elitist perch in that alternate universe you inhabit, would like to think that everybody in financial difficulty is there because they like it, but that simply doesn't match the facts.
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If people are having children based on baby bonuses without considering whether they can afford to raise their children we have problems.
Except I never said that and neither did Layton. You made it up...pulled it out of your ass.
People have children for a variety of reasons and circumstances change.
Besides, we're talking about money that will go directly back into the economy in most cases, so it's also an economic driver.
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Of course, if you want people to pay their own way through life it's greed. I have worked hard and sacrificed a lot to raise my children, others can do the same.
Ah, here we go again. Only the rich work hard. Anybody who isn't rich is a lazy slacking bastard. It comes up again and again in Conservative rhetoric. It's bullshit of course. People in low and medium-paying jobs work hard. Go see what it is they do for a living and ask yourself if you could do that five or six days a week, fifty weeks a year.
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It just freaks me out when he says he will be spending 18.1 billion extra, I dont know if corporate tax and carbon auctions will cover it.
He also said that if the money isn't there, he will have to put off his plans until it is. Go and look at how Tommy Douglas managed to pull Saskatchewan out of trouble and pay for social programs there, and you'll find that Layton is very much following in his footsteps. We're talking about real fiscal management here, not the slight of hand and book-cooking so popular among the Conservative and corporate set.
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A bug out from Afghanistan would free up more cash, but I dont think a sudden withdrawl is a good idea.
Nobody is talking about a bug-out though. Layton is very clearly talking about an orderly withdrawal, just starting now instead of in 2011.
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Problem with Jacks plan is the only people who still have jobs will be working will be for the government because that corporate tax jump will be a job killer.
You know what the real job killers are? Paying corporations to ship jobs overseas. Tying ourselves to 19th century technology in the 21st century. Giving huge bonuses to CEOs who pollute our country, slash jobs, insist on corporate welfare, and pay for the lobbyists who rotate in and out of Harper's government unchecked.