All of this trouser dampening and fear mongering is aimed at Dion's terrifying carbon tax proposal. You know, nothing says Conservative quite like the reek of stale urine, well, except for estrangement from the truth.
However, Jane Taber and Craig Oliver, co-hosts of CTV's Question Period, noted that the Liberal tax -- which hasn't been formally presented yet -- rules out an additional tax on gasoline.
Details, bitches. Let loose your bladders and join the widdling chorus of Conservative he-men and women. What ever you do, don't pay any attention to the fact that it is during Conservative rule that those fearsome prices have gathered. That the Harper Conservatives are at the helm as auto sector jobs vanish and food prices sky-rocket, that means nothing. Shiny thing ADSCAM shiny thing.
Oh yes, fellow Canadians, cower in fear before the tax and spend Liberals. Dread the party that balanced the federal budget. Fear the wicked men and women that brought us the sinister and awful budget surplus. Take solace in the doughy embrace of the bold Conservatives who have cut some taxes and presided over the decimation of the terrible surplus. Rejoice friends, soon with Conservative governance, diligence and care, we will return to the comfort and security of deficits and the slashing of ever more social programs. Infrastructure is for pussies. Why, Dion wants to tax something and all taxes are tools of the devil. He wants to take your money and give it foreign talking atheist abortion lesbians that are married.
In addition, the carbon tax is supposed to be "revenue neutral" -- meaning revenue raised by the carbon tax is to be offset by accompanying cuts in income and other taxes, Taber said.
Don't pay any mind to the facts. We can't change tack, not now, not ever. Trust Stephen, he is large. He knows that doing anything to hamper the strip mining and carbon spewing filthy habits of his backers will destroy the economy. ADSCAM. Working cleaner, living smarter, why that's commie talk. Innovation and change will mean the end of everything as Stephen Harper knows it, the way he likes it and the way he wants to keep it. Fuck the fucking climate, screw the stupid rivers, lakes and waterways. There is money in them thar poisoned hills and ain't nothing more important than harvesting money for corporate profit. In this era, to be Conservative is divorced from conservation, let's call it unreconcilable differences shall we. Tomorrow is just a lie that keeps us from the rapture and Stephen and Stockwell are always at the ready to saddle up their dinosaurs and ride us off the cliff into the pretty, poisoned sunset.
The Cons are on the job and they know what's good for you.
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Almost every new day reveals another slimy Harper lie or incompetence.
Ok, a carbon tax that doesnot tax carbo... I am waiting with bated breathe to see how exactly this is going to work out.
Remember this promise? "I will get rid of the GST" (paraphrasing from a certain Liberal way back when).
Liberal promises are worth even less then Conservative promises.
The only thing dumber than a dumb Liberal is a smart Conservative.
Beautiful rant!
I agree 100%. Preach it!
well alpha, typical of this years crop of wet liberals, the notion of a carbon tax was announced before the details were in place. they announced the battle they just didn't have a plan. but in the limited amount that the liberals can be defended, they will not be looking for an increased tax at the pump. there are no shortage of other areas in which carbons are produced. still, all of this carbon taxing and credit trading strikes me as a load of hogwash. and while an esoteric argument could be made that there is a possible, positive end result it is too convoluted.
i'm a bit more of a pragmatist. i like me some government interference. we, as a society, have become addicted and reliant on personal automobiles. it seems unlikely that anyone will cure themselves spontaneously of this malady. so. time to kick the shit out the worst junkies starting at the pimp level. we need legislation that forces auto makers to drastically increase efficiency, mileage and let's throw safety in as well.
all the jack-ass bastards sitting in the manicured suburbs with f-350 pick ups in the drive need to get a slap too. you insist on driving something inappropriate, wasteful and silly. pay the fuck up. those things, suvs and other vehicles that are designated as working vehicles need to be punitively taxed upon purchase if there's no demonstrable work related necessity.
close off city centres to traffic after the fashion that london, england has done. you want to drive into the core... pay the fuck up. couple that with a massive investment in public transit across the country. it is foolish to be driving around in a city like toronto when the parking is already so expensive, gas is so expensive and the city is a greenish grey haze every summer from stupid traffic.
if you're in a smart car or a hybrid or any of the next generation of cars that are designed with intelligence as opposed to testosterone, you get to drive in preferred lanes and pay lower public parking fees. if you insist on driving a boat, pay the fuck up.
there's a lot of things that can and should be done from the grass roots on up to the top. but it really amounts to changing our thinking. the fact that anyone drives a huge suv is proof that it can be done. i recall a day when nobody would be caught dead in a jeep because it was a vehicle for grunts and labourers. now it is status. we've sold a lot of stupid ideas to ourselves, a few wiser ones are due.
Thanks PSA, that was beautiful, and I am fully on yourside on this subject. (The environment is one area where I am firmly left of centre, and swiging even further out).
cheers alpha, we aren't entirely evil creatures over here. i was in scotland last autumn and fuel prices in the uk and europe are far higher than we've seen here. there were lots and lots of cars. little cars. small cars. clever cars. and there was traffic but not the wall to wall, bumper to bumper stupidity we have here. the geography is more compressed but we were able to get anywhere we needed to go by public transit that ran all over the place. in the cities, people were out walking to their destinations, there were bicycles and both pedestrians and cyclists were respected far more than they seem to be here.
i am a firm believer in learning from the better example and innovation rather than complacency. we're allowing the current heating fuel of choice, natural gas be burned up at a rate that would see to the needs of 3 million homes just to extract oil from sand. that is ridiculous. the technology exists to begin switching over to geothermal and solar assisted heating. safer and renewable forever but no, the supposed economy will come apart if the oil companies don't get to rape our wallets forever and ever amen.
if dion or harper or anyone that has an honest bone in their body wanted to talk sound environmental policy, that is the sort of entrepreneurial step we need to start taking.
If the carbon tax includes diamonds, count me out.
More mass transit, more bicycle lanes (I loved the Netherlands, and the embrace of the bicycle there).
Some cities here in Canada have decent mass transit (I liked Montreal's subyways, but only use it to get from Long Pointe to downtown when I am there). It is time for us to ramp that up. I would pay a little bit more taxes to fund better greener transit intiatives.
Ahh, the dream of high speed rail linking cities, followed by greener buses and light rail...
My other pet peeve is, who the f*** needs a 2400+ sq foot home? We should be building up and down to maximize our green space... The stuff that exchanges the poisons in the air we breathe for something our lungs need is starting to go the way of the dodo in favour of sprawling houses and swimming pools.
Hug a tree today... If you have no tree to hug, plant one!
The way in which the Liberals’ carbon tax “plan” has been handled is atrocious. Perhaps in a different political environment it would have made sense to simply float the idea as a concept and initiate public discussion about it with different stakeholders, but they should have realized that in the absence of any actual details about how such a proposal would be structured and implemented, it would inevitably be distorted by their political opponents to their own advantage.
Anything involving a “tax” was bound to be a hard sell in the first place and would provoke a lot of skepticism and outright hostility… especially when there’s a lot of apprehension about the economy in general these days, what with soaring oil prices and the threat of a recession looming. To compound this by allowing to be seen as a nothing more than an ill-considered tax-grab really defies all common sense.
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