king of Funk
TRIBE Member
I can understand that the Provincial Liberals have to deal with this deficit but there's no way they didn't know it was comming. A competent accountant with PUBLICALLY available provincial financial statements could have figured it out in about a week with a fucking abacus.
I want a balanced budget as much as the next guy (which thinking about it is not very much at all). I just don't understand why we can't stick to the tried and tested method of passing on the costs of our lifestyle to our grandchildren?
McGuinty's problem is that he can't raise taxes because the Tories painted him as a tax hiking communist. So the solution is to back off on as much spending as he can get away with
Take The TTC.
One way cash fares for a sample of comparable cities:
Washington DC C$2.00
Boston about C$1..30
Chicago less than C$2.00
Paris Metro less than C$2.00
Both Paris and Chicago cover much larger areas than the TTC and the DC metro has much fewer passengers (most people commute via car or train from maryland and virginia).
Having taken transit in all the above cities (other than Chi town), I can tell you they are more comfortable and more reliable than the service on the TTC.
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Raise Hydro rates? Sure, instead of working to bring Hydro into the public sector and dissolve the madness that is the Electricity Market. By the way here's a list of the "participants in the Electricty market"
http://www.theimo.com/imoweb/market/participants.asp
For example:
"Brascan Energy Marketing Inc". Who are they and do they care what the average Ontarian pays for their Hydro at home?
So what's the priority striving for a lean fiscally responsible PUBLIC energy utility that provides EVERYONE with affordable power or helping foreign Engery Speculators rinse ca$h. My Hydro rates are going up in the spring so how do you guys feel about a starting an energey trading company based in the Cayman Islands? Shout me if you're in. You can work from home to avoid the impending TTC fare hike to $5.00.
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Cigarettes.
This is my Favourite. The easiest way to combat the scourge of tobacco diseases on our society is to?...............Ban them right?
NO.
The answer is to raise tobacco taxes. Really it is.
Look at it this way. If I'm on welfare and I have a monthly check of $600 a month after rent. Needless to say I'm a regluar smoker(likely because the majority of regular smokers are low income). If I smoke 5 packs a week that's about $215 a month. How much of that goes back to the government half?. Nice business to be in.
A bigger question is what exactly are the ethics of taxing peoples addiction? Good , bad , Tolerable if you don't smoke?
At the end of it all screw me if you have the power to do so....but try not treat me like an idiot while you're doing it.
Bring back the Tories?.......That's another story.
I want a balanced budget as much as the next guy (which thinking about it is not very much at all). I just don't understand why we can't stick to the tried and tested method of passing on the costs of our lifestyle to our grandchildren?
McGuinty's problem is that he can't raise taxes because the Tories painted him as a tax hiking communist. So the solution is to back off on as much spending as he can get away with
Take The TTC.
One way cash fares for a sample of comparable cities:
Washington DC C$2.00
Boston about C$1..30
Chicago less than C$2.00
Paris Metro less than C$2.00
Both Paris and Chicago cover much larger areas than the TTC and the DC metro has much fewer passengers (most people commute via car or train from maryland and virginia).
Having taken transit in all the above cities (other than Chi town), I can tell you they are more comfortable and more reliable than the service on the TTC.
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Raise Hydro rates? Sure, instead of working to bring Hydro into the public sector and dissolve the madness that is the Electricity Market. By the way here's a list of the "participants in the Electricty market"
http://www.theimo.com/imoweb/market/participants.asp
For example:
"Brascan Energy Marketing Inc". Who are they and do they care what the average Ontarian pays for their Hydro at home?
So what's the priority striving for a lean fiscally responsible PUBLIC energy utility that provides EVERYONE with affordable power or helping foreign Engery Speculators rinse ca$h. My Hydro rates are going up in the spring so how do you guys feel about a starting an energey trading company based in the Cayman Islands? Shout me if you're in. You can work from home to avoid the impending TTC fare hike to $5.00.
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Cigarettes.
This is my Favourite. The easiest way to combat the scourge of tobacco diseases on our society is to?...............Ban them right?
NO.
The answer is to raise tobacco taxes. Really it is.
Look at it this way. If I'm on welfare and I have a monthly check of $600 a month after rent. Needless to say I'm a regluar smoker(likely because the majority of regular smokers are low income). If I smoke 5 packs a week that's about $215 a month. How much of that goes back to the government half?. Nice business to be in.
A bigger question is what exactly are the ethics of taxing peoples addiction? Good , bad , Tolerable if you don't smoke?
At the end of it all screw me if you have the power to do so....but try not treat me like an idiot while you're doing it.
Bring back the Tories?.......That's another story.
