Originally Posted by
Drewbacca
I don't mind paying a reasonable amount of tax to help our country. What I don't like doing is paying astronomical amounts of tax so people like the Liberals and Dion and Layton can waste our money on improper investments. There are wiser ways to create revenue for our country and that's through wise investments and lending. Your RRSP the government provides is a great way to contribute -- and you don't have to pay tax on it! That's why it's extremely telling about how mind numbingly dumb The Liberals and NDP's "plans" are. (I'm not crediting the Conservatives with RRSPs, I'm just saying it's the same philosophy that will benefit us)
Look at the debate. They continually said Harper had no plan. Yet his response was ALWAYS, wise investments in key segments to facilitate growth. And it's working -- unemployment in Ontario is low. Yes, we're losing SOME manufacturing jobs, but there are huge booms going on in this economy, too. (and the tar sands don't count, because oil is a workhorse in any economy) And the growth is outpacing the loss. So yes, Leeroy Oshawa might not be able to make 40 dollars an hour screwing on a wheel at the GM plant might have to learn a new job. But his opportunity is there.
The last thing we need is Dion or Layton putting their hands in the market stirring things up in a panic. As a small business and an investor myself I realize how scary that scenario is. And I consider myself an independent. I am not a conservative person. My allegiance is whored out to the best option at the time of the election. I've voted Liberal in the past, and I'd even vote NDP if they made sense to me.
When asked, point blank by the moderator, if it was likely for the lost manufacturing jobs to come back Harper honestly and directly said No, he didn't think it's possible. Dion and Layton said yes. That's a lie. No company who's uprooted itself from Ontario, B.C., New Brunswick or Quebec and moved to Mexico is going to come back. A move is a huge undertaking, and once it's done they're not going to come back. They have to recoup that loss with the lower long term cost. That's reality. The fact that Dion and Layton don't understand that concerns me, as someone who has 3 small businesses underway towards the end of this year.
Listen to the arts funding debate. They were coming down on Harper on cutting certain programs. Later on in the debate I thought Harper made a VERY strong comment about yes, he did cut and slash certain programs that weren't seeing any kind of real returns. But overall arts funding was actually UP overall than the previous 5 - 6 years. The entire panel then backpedaled and agreed wise investing in proper programs was the way to go. The Conservatives are spending our money wisely from everything we know now, and that's comforting to see.
