I have a cold. Will Stephen Harper promise me a tax break to help?

Telly Savalas

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Fri Dec-30-05 02:36 PM
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I have a cold. Will Stephen Harper promise me a tax break to help?

What's with this guy? Tax breaks are his solution to everything. The latest is his "transit plan":

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1135896622074&call_pageid=974089105216&col=974089088220

Has this guy ever been on public transit on his life? I don't know about the rest of the country, but the subway lines I take to and from work everyday in Torono are pretty much running at capacity. How will a tax cut aimed at boosting ridership do anything if more money isn't appropriated for improving the system?

Furthermore, the amount of the tax break is so ridiculously low, one really has to wonder what kind of an incentive it would be. $3 a week for transit is so absurd, it makes the $23/week Conservative "child care plan" look like a child care plan.

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Spazito

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Fri Dec-30-05 03:27 PM
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1. LOL, seeing as the real Harper didn't sell in the last election,

his handlers are trying, badly, to remake him as a 'policy' guy who promises us everything while reducing taxes for the rich, hmmmm, gee, this seems vaguely familiar to a guy south of us, rofl.

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imouttahere

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Sat Dec-31-05 06:51 PM
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3. Vaguely familiar???

Harper's the Canadian version of BushCo! Just as BushCo shouldn't be able to call himself an American, Harper shouldn't call himself Canadian!

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ClusterFreak

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Fri Dec-30-05 06:10 PM
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2. You said it.

That's Smarmy McSmuggenstein's answer to everything.

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eve_was_framed

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Sat Jan-07-06 01:33 PM
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4. I don't think so but if he gets into office the rear end screwing we'll

Edited on Sat Jan-07-06 01:34 PM by eve_was_framed

be getting will make your cold seem like a dream.

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