Comments on: You know what sucks?

By: Frank Ch. Eigler

Frank Ch. Eigler — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:40:06 +0000

Really, to be fair, that “new tax cut” corresponds to 1% of the earnings … applied to just these first few weeks of 2006, when it kicked in. They are proposing bringing other taxes down to more than compensate for that. Do some arithmetic, you’ll see how e.g. the proposed 2% drop in GST is likely to do the job.

I’m sure there are plenty of reasons why the proposed or actual tory policies will end up generating disagreement. But at least the debate should be grounded on *all* the facts.

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:58:56 +0000

Frank, you mean like http://www.canada.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=c67c1ac1-6f86-4889-b04a-b0fe668a038c
where it says:

Tory Leader Stephen Harper, while campaigning in southern Ontario, said a Tory government would repeal the new Liberal tax cut for people in the lowest income tax rate if it wins government on Jan. 23.

Yeah, there’s that “secondary sources” all right - how can I believe what Stephen Harper says about Stephen Harper’s platform!

By: Frank Ch. Eigler

Frank Ch. Eigler — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:57:16 +0000

And he won’t get to eat NDP babies either… but seriously, where in his campaign literature or speeches did you hear anything about outlawing abortion or increasing taxes to the poor? Or is this all based on what historians call secondary sources?

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:56:25 +0000

Frank, I’m hoping this will mean that he won’t be able to keep his campaign promises to repeal gay marriage, outlaw abortion, increase taxes to the poor and give tax breaks to the rich. Which is a very, very lucky thing for Canada.

By: Frank Ch. Eigler

Frank Ch. Eigler — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:52:36 +0000

It looks like you’re off the hook. Care to guess how much social mayhem the tories will accomplish with their minority?

By the way, predictions are by nature risky, testable things. They are not just two-cent opinions like “I like ice cream” that is neither worth contradicting nor contradictable. Predictions are serious business, even when they come at the low-low cost of $0.

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:07:12 +0000

Frank, I’ll refund you every cent you paid for my opinion.

By: Frank Ch. Eigler

Frank Ch. Eigler — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:56:19 +0000

> [...] Iâ€™m just hoping and praying that Harper doesnâ€™t get a
> majority, because he would be a giant step backwards [...]

So, should the former happen but not the latter, what form of your words are you offering to eat?

By: Alexis

Alexis — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:03:48 +0000

Dentistry: what helped me massively was that my dentist gave me a rubber block to bite on with the molars on the side which is not being worked on. You can bite like crazy and there is no risk of you biting on the drill or the dentists fingers.

A rubber doorstop carved down a bit works well if your dentist doesn’t have the block.