65% of Canadians support spending cuts to tax hikes or continued large deficits.. - CTFDo Canadians want the Federal Government to cut transfers to provinces to Health, Education and Social Services in excess of $ 25 million again?
Do Canadians want the Federal Government to raise taxes illegally again and be found guilty by the Supreme Court in a ruling 7-0?
I don't think so.
Canadians want a responsible all level of Government to eliminates wasteful spending on unecessary programs.
My very short list: (busy watching the Women's Team)
- Do NOT raid the Employment Insurance fund of Billions the Liberals did.
- In honour of Paul Martin Liberals ask the CBC to find $ 100 million in savings or 10% of their budget whichever is greater.
- Do NOT touch transfers to Provinces in Healthcare, Education and Social Services.
- End Political Party Subsidy
- Introduce a 20% Cut in office expenses for all MP's and Senators.
- Get Liberals to return the GST overpayments immediately.
- Appeal lower court ruling start collections on Liberal leadership debts.
- Eliminate all funding of NGO's that have become left leaning mouthpieces. Buh-bye!
- Eliminate 10% from all political parties. Cry here ---> ....
- Increase foreign competition for Telcos, Airlines, Banks (Collect Billions in fees)
- Eliminate federal subsidies in monopolies in Ontario, Quebec.
- Re-evaluate Equalization program for basket case provinces ie Quebec.
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My polling has 95% favouring spending cuts to raising taxes. The most opposed to spending cuts are public sector employees. I'd have to look it up again, but isn't something like 35% of our labour force employed by some branch of government?
Maybe CUPE members should not be allowed to vote in federal elections due to a conflict of interest? Just an idea I'm throwing out there...
The CBC won't respond well to being asked to find $100 million or more to cut from their budget.
They should be asked to find $100 million or 10% which ever is less. At least that way there'll be a remote chance of cooperation on their end.
When a regular Canadian taxpayer gets behind in payments the taxman comes in and seizes bank accounts.
When a parent gets behind in maintenance payments, employers are forced to withhold the amt and remit it to said agency, and said parent can't get his drivers license renewed until he/she is caught up to date.
So, why can't those deadbead leadership guys/gals not have their paycheques garnisheed till all debt is paid, or have their bank accounts seized.
Equality is supposed to mean we are all treated equal, so why aren't politicians treated equally.
A true plan to revive the economy
Stockwell Day is now Canada's Treasury Minister, and will have to make cuts to government spending amounting to about 8% to reduce spending by $19 billion over the next five years. To make this palatable to voters and the opposition parties, transfer payments are to be considered "untouchable". There is a lot of fat in terms of programs which are either not delivering what is promised, have outlived their usefulness or are mismanaged and can be reorganized to run more efficiently. Consider that large corporations like Canadian Tire or Wal-Mart typically only have five layers of management, while government departments have convoluted structures with multiple layers of management (reputedly as many as 30, but I'll leave that as anecdotal until I see proof)
I think the emphasis on protecting transfers is wrong headed, but that is because I don't see the idea of the State seizing wealth and property from the productive to give to political rent seekers and the non productive as being a proper role for the State.
However, given political reality, cutting transfers to individuals would be electoral suicide, so about $61 billion is untouchable.
We can still look at other areas like transfers to governments (especially governments with their own sources of revenue like offshore oil or hydro), which gives us another $46 billion to work with.
Subsidies should be cut for another @ $30 billion
Crown corporations should be cut as well, since that provides another $8 billion
Adding that up, we can get $84 billion in cuts. Sustained for six years this would allow the entire national debt to be paid off, and if the program is sustained for 12 years then all unfunded liabilities (CPP, pensions, etc.) are also covered.
Not included in this virtuous circle is the possibility of reductions in operating expenses due to the ending of so many programs, and of course the reduction of the $30 billion/year in debt payments. Real tax cuts can be made from the savings here, energizing the economy and in all likelyhood speeding up the entire process through increased tax revenues.
Here is a real program to get behind: don't leave the debt to our grandchildren but pay it off before our children leave school!
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