i would have to think about this. My first impression is that I would just get the easiest or most fun crappy job I could find, and wait for the check instead of trying harder to make 29,000 bucks a year.
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Except for the elderly or persons with physical or mental disabilities why would we ever top up someone's income? In Canada you have the freedom to do whatever you want. If you work hard starting a business or getting an education you have the potential to be very successful. If you chose to work at minimum wage jobs you will probably not get very far in life. I certainly do not want my tax dollars unjustly enriching others based on their life decisions.
Situation 1.
Husband works full time at the gas station, makes $24000 a year.
Wife works part time at tim hortons. 8 hours a week, makes $4000 a year.
Do both get topped up to 30000? Or just the husband? What if they are common law? What if they are arent married, and just living together but not common law.
Why wouldn't the husband work less hours? Why would anyone want to work in a shitty job, if you get 30000 anyways?
Husband works full time at the gas station, makes $24000 a year.
Wife works part time at tim hortons. 8 hours a week, makes $4000 a year.
Do both get topped up to 30000? Or just the husband? What if they are common law? What if they are arent married, and just living together but not common law.
Why wouldn't the husband work less hours? Why would anyone want to work in a shitty job, if you get 30000 anyways?
Of course you can do flat tax and still have deductions and deferrals. There is this tiny little island that goes by the name of Hong Kong, perhaps you have heard of it.
Mind you, there is virtually no social safety net there other than a stingy stipend for seniors.You cannot tax people on unrealized gains. Where would the money come from?
Deferred tax is a big misnomer. It is created by the difference in the accounting and tax treatment of certain items. It does not mean "corporations owe billions in deferred taxes". The question you should be asking is why are the accounting and tax treatment different on certain items?
My old accounting professor always says lawyers should not be writing tax laws because they get an idea and they wet themselves without some critical thinking.:nod:
That's what happens after attending so many Red Scare meetings.
Indoctrination can do amazing things, persuading people to buy into the most unlikely propositions. It can even persuade them to share these ideas with their friends, family, neighbours and co-workers. At least here the purveyors of improbable notions have the anonymity of a Perb handle.
The national debt is a different animal, it is the aggregate of our ability to live beyond our means. You want to cut national debt, simple - spend less just like any other sane person would...
A further note on deferred taxes. Due to interpretations such as yours that term was "updated" to be called "future income taxes" a few years ago.
I think there needs to be an income tax filing disclosure in order to become a senator and while you are a senator so the public knows how much tax they pay. After all when your providing a service to the public stuff like that should be transparent.
Rex Murphy's comment that the current Republican line-up would only be considered the B team in a world with a two letter alphabet is biting for a good reason. Whenever the putative main contenders won't show up, be it the Canadian Liberal leadership in 2006 when McKenna was simply not interested, or whether it's this year's Republican race the failure to show up reveals something. The brighter types realize the "prize" is of little value.
In this case the smarter Republican potential nominees don't want to run for the party in a year where Tea Party lunatics as well as the Religious Right bigots will all have to be somehow managed and controlled, and yet pandered to at the same time. And beyond that, many are fearful of possibly winning and then presiding over an economy that Bernancke now says will need the full-on zero interest rate treatment for at least the next two years. How can they promote recovery and appease the Tea Party/John Birch crowd at the same time? They can't and they know it, and that's why they are staying home.
Smarter Republicans probably want to hold Congress and wait, let Obama be the recession president, and let him propose those tax changes that they will, in a very quiet moment, allow to somehow sneak through, along with cuts to the Pentagon. Such as Canada's F35 program. Ooops!
I love how the left classifies the Republican Presidential field as weak when the current President had absolutely no experience running anything in his life. Obama can't even deliver a simple speech without a teleprompter! Incidentally we now see the results of electing a President with no resume. Any of these Republican candidates would be infinitely better than Obama. President Downgrade is a perfect label for Obama.
The "right" also classifies this bunch as weak; that is why there is no enthusiasm for them. Stephen Colbert brought a much bigger audience to his "campaign" rally in Virginia than any of them. Maybe news for you -- all politicians use teleprompters for major speeches, until the Republicans started trying to deflate Obama's oratory skills by mocking his teleprompter use. Maybe that's why their speeches without using it are so lame.
I suspect her options are much greater now. She would probably be a lackluster ex-governor (if she had finished her first term) by now, working for some campaign contributor in Anchorage. She is now wealthy from her book sales and speeches and tv series, and has a considerable following that hangs on her every word (or tweet, or however these people communicate this week). Imagine the mockery she would be enduring if she was actually the current vice-president.
They don't classify them as weak, they just want a candidate that is much more Conservative. Big difference.
I agree that some politicians use teleprompters for major speeches, but Obama doesn't ever make a public speech without one. Go to YouTube if you want to see Obama speaking without his teleprompter. Frankly speaking, its very embarrassing to watch.
Typical response from the left. When you can't defend your point you change the subject and/or talk about the right.Or, you could look up the last presidential debate, where he did just fine.
Devo, you amaze me. (and bring great shame to a great group of artists cum musicians - one of my favourite bands of all time- Devo)
I think I love you, in a twisted and dirty prison inmate way.
Ok, I want to fuck you. There, I said it! Oh to be free!
I think I love you, in a twisted and dirty prison inmate way.
Ok, I want to fuck you. There, I said it! Oh to be free!
Um...er....the subject matter was the use of teleprompters (with which I see nothing wrong). I would love to have one when I have to give any speech (but use Powerpoints instead). How does that change the subject?
Pretty well agree with your post Al, but are you not also forgetting Savros (THE major democrat funder) or the unions (labour owns Obama) in the bolded sentence.
Not much difference anymore in left or right, they are each to extremes, but have to say that while Obama can speak (kinda reminds me of MLK), he's bad without a telepromter
Hell look how Obama sold out to the greenies with Keystone for their support, damn those that need jobs. IF he gets re-elected, he will approve Keystone
Not that I am complaining but I notice that you often involve yourself in 2 way discussions that aren't really directed at you. My post was actually a response to DavidMR who suggested that the Republicans have a weak line-up.
Actually the subject matter was about Obama being unqualified to be President. His inability to make speeches without a teleprompter was an example of his incompetency. Instead of debating Obama's deficiencies you changed the subject and talked about Republicans.
Its not too late however for you to try and convince us that Obama is qualified and/or is doing a good job of running the country.
