Green Shift II: Coalition Tax Grab?

It is interesting watch some in our Media outlets making stuff up and providing cover for the Liberals during this campaign. We saw the same thing when the Liberals allowed a vote in the Senate to kill a reckless enviromental bill. Why is the media refusing to ask tough questions regarding the policy platform of the Liberals, NDP and Bloc? Many of us don't care about a few mistakes from vetting to crowd control. We understand this happens with EVERY election.  Where is the fact checking on the big issues and spending promises? Anyone curious how Ignatieff latest series of promises are not included in his platform?

We have seen the Liberal experiment with buying used military equipment: we have a sub fleet that can't use it's torpedoes.

On the CBC last night it appeared for a brief moment, a few on the At Issue Panel were doing a mea culpa admitting the media is to blame for the lack of issues being discussed. It lasted for about five minutes. Our state broadcaster is doing a horrible job in getting answers to questions that matter. We are getting talking points recycled and spin from the guests. Why are we diverting over a billion dollars to a state broadcaster that can't seem to get reporting the news in a balanced manner on a campaign that has only thirty-six days?

Liberals are refusing to discuss the detail in their latest Carbon Tax Scheme on page 46 in their platform. It hints to Green Shift. The public won't know until after the troika seize power if the Conservatives don't win an outright majority. Is this issue not newsworthy?

In the coming weeks and months we Liberals look forward to speaking with Canadians and asking them to join a growing coalition. A coalition that crosses party lines and will move us beyond outdated notions of what it means to be right- or left-wing. – A message from Stéphane Dion Green Shift  ( Greenshift.ca website no longer exists and they have scrubbed it from their website)

Green Shift I Taxes on Business and Consumers

Ignatieff is left of the Dion led Liberals in 2008. Dion had promised to keep lowering the costs for business. This professor understood the Chretien-Martin Liberal track record. He did not subscribe to attacking banks and oil companies as villains or rich in his campaign to become the PM.

Broad-based corporate income tax reductions: We will accelerate and deepen the currently planned corporate tax cuts, reducing the general corporate tax rate by an additional one per cent within four years.

That means the federal corporate tax rate in Canada will be only 14 per cent by the fourth year. This will make Canada one of the most competitive jurisdictions in the world, attracting businesses that will be part of a sustainable, green, Canadian economy. (Page 36 Greenshift)

When will the media hold the political parties to account for NOT costing out their promises? If Canadians are expected to make an informed decision to elect their MP and Federal government it is time to stop the navel gazing. If a political party has major promises not costed in their platform or refuses to provide an explanation for their policies shouldn't that be pressing issue for the news-opinion panels?

Green Party Leader : Caroline Lucas Plays Robin Hood

Caroline Lucas should be the luckiest woman in politics. More than 20 years ago she joined a minor, leftfield party: today its defining issue has become the biggest political issue in the world. Bingo! Only politics, of course, is not that simple. As Winston Churchill famously pointed out, democracy has been described as "the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried", and if you really want to see what he meant, spend an hour with the leader of the Green party. May 18, 2009 Guardian

It is not difficult to play the part of Robin Hood in politics. Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party follows the tradition of blaming the "robber barons" (BP, Shell, Centrica) for making "grotesque profits". She suggests they are to blame for the rising costs of heating your home. She also like to throw in her clip it is they are run by mostly men.
Does she think students, seniors are driving around in Hummers, private jets heating the 5,000 square foot mansions consuming and feeding the profits of these evil robber barons? I am under the impression these groups have very little impact in polluting or wasting energy. Caroline can you contact those wealthy friends in the Green Lobby to stop sending profits.(here)

The delegates to the Copenhagen climate summit will produce enough carbon emissions to fill 10,000 Olympic swimming pools, according to figures commissioned by the host Denmark. Reuters is reporting that the massive carbon footprint is equivalent to the impact generated by half a million Ethiopians in a single year Did you attend, how did you get there again?

The socialist parties in Canada do the same thing.  They promised an organic chicken in every pot and to make those rich bad people pay for the inequities of society. The Bloc, NDP regularly like blame the banks, big corporations, oil companies for "grotesque profits".

Poverty, unemployment exists and will always be a part of every society. How we choose to deal with has been an ideological battle for decades.Where do the NDP, Bloc and Liberals turn to for economic models of successful socialism? What countries do the cite as role models?

The Liberals, NDP , Bloc have been fans of "wealth redistribution" for a very long time. They propose to tax the middle, upper income earners to provide a higher standard of living for the less fortunate. The disconnect for the coalition parties is how much more in taxes can the middle class afford to give?

Do any of us believe they can create a "windfall tax", "Tobin Bank tax", "Carbon Tax", promising to targeting only the most wealthy, banks, oil companies system will work to help the poor?

HST is a bad tax according to the socialists NDP, they even had fun at the expense of their coalition leader here. Some Liberals like the HST, some Liberals are against the long gun registry but threats by the Liberal party whip can eliminate those individual thoughts. Can a socialist explain a good tax vs a bad tax? The middle class wallet can't discriminate based on political ideology. It sucks when the right or left take our money.

If so where are those economic socialist government models? Let's compare.

If a large population of poorer Canadians are not paying income taxes today how do you help them by increasing their expenses on food, energy, shelter through adding or increasing consumption taxes?

Who will ultimately be asked to pay for those new added taxes, families and the middle class.

Instead of looking at the problem in an objective fashion it is much easier to blame, label someone else for your misfortune. Is is possible a lack of jobs, education, willingness to relocate to regions where the economy and prospects are better?

If I build my mansion on the beachfront, or in the middle of a fire zone in the forest should the taxpayer be on the hook? Where does my personal responsibility measure up?

Can Caroline Lucas identify or enumerate how many of these MPs are in the House of Commons are on the payroll for these three energy (Robber Barons) companies?

The Labor Party has a majority and helped create a financial incentive for Carbon Trading. Billions have gone missing, organized crime and governments are selling the same credits twice. Do you see a problem with giving government more taxation powers?

What other types of taxes, subsidies are given by governments can she find as wasteful? Can we review and eliminate wasteful spending and non essential priorities and allow the poorer and middle class to keep their earnings?

h/t  Nexus