We Should Take Notes from Canada

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Yes, the economy of Canada is just like ours, pretty much a mirror image. Obviously, what they do would work here every time.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Yes, the economy of Canada is just like ours, pretty much a mirror image. Obviously, what they do would work here every time.
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are you suggesting that their approach to spending isn't better than our laissez faire silliness?
 
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lawgator1 said:
Yes, the economy of Canada is just like ours, pretty much a mirror image. Obviously, what they do would work here every time.
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No but we could learn from their examples, cut corp taxes and spending.
 
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lawgator1 said:
No.




We should cut spending.

I'd be more inclined to cut the corporate rate if the corporations, you know, actually paid it.
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Corporations do not pay taxes, the consumer/customer pays their taxes.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Yes, the economy of Canada is just like ours, pretty much a mirror image. Obviously, what they do would work here every time.
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Funny how supporters of a single payer HC system love to trot out stats about satisfaction rates and HC quality in Canada though ain't it?
 
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Wow, someone could write a post entitled "What Frank Miniter [the author] doesn't want you to know about the differences between the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament."

Or "What Frank Miniter doesn't want you to know about Canadian banking regulations."

If Obama tried to adopt the financial regulations here that they have there, Forbes would crucify him.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Wow, someone could write a post entitled "What Frank Miniter [the author] doesn't want you to know about the differences between the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament."

Or "What Frank Miniter doesn't want you to know about Canadian banking regulations."

If Obama tried to adopt the financial regulations here that they have there, Forbes would crucify him.
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but nobody would debate incentivizing long term gov't leeches to actually save money as their lone route to full pay.
 
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The premise is dumb.

He cherry picks out a few differences and pretends as if that's the reason Canada has a lower unemployment rate that America.

For example, the corporate tax rate. Yes, we can lower rate to match Canada. But does that mean we must also raise our capital gains tax rates, upper income tax rates, and sales tax rates, to follow their model?

I'm sure Mr. Miniter would be thrilled with that.
 
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Loved this proposal by Canadian Government:

To achieve this the Harper government did something you might more expect to see in the private sector. Clement made history in Canada by tying bonuses of senior bureaucrats to the success of government-wide objectives for reducing expenditures. Get this, about 40% of the bureaucrats’ bonuses were linked to a “Deficit Reduction Action Plan.” Yeah, bureaucrats got bigger bonuses when they proposed ways to make bigger cuts.

Clement explained, “Forty percent of this at-risk pay for senior managers was based on how much they contributed to the target of least $4 billion a year in permanent savings. This is just part of how we’re changing the attitude of government officials from spending enablers to cost containers.”
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While we're at it, let's spend 1.5% of GDP on defense instead of nearly 5%. That would save some money, wouldn't it?
 
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I'm amazed they spend 1.5% of their GDP on expense.....if so, they must spend it poorly.

As far as their HC goes, when the sweet smelling hits the fan medically speaking, Canadians of means get things fixed in the States.
 
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Conservatives Suggest we Should Emulate Canada - Forbes

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hog88 said:
Corporations do not pay taxes, the consumer/customer pays their taxes.
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I think we all understand what is being said here. But serious question, if corporate taxes were reduced to zero tomorrow, how much of the corporate windfall would go back to the consumers in the form of large scale price reductions? How much would go to further enrich shareholders?
 
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TruthIsOutThere said:
I think we all understand what is being said here. But serious question, if corporate taxes were reduced to zero tomorrow, how much of the corporate windfall would go back to the consumers in the form of large scale price reductions? How much would go to further enrich shareholders?
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Competition is a beautiful thing in the free market place.
 
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If we really wanted to stimulate the economy put all taxes on hold for a day and watch people go buy tons of shyt. Did you try to go shopping when Tennessee had the tax-free weekend? WTF, everyone and their mom went out to buy clothes and other items.
 
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TruthIsOutThere said:
I think we all understand what is being said here. But serious question, if corporate taxes were reduced to zero tomorrow, how much of the corporate windfall would go back to the consumers in the form of large scale price reductions? How much would go to further enrich shareholders?
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both would happen. Many savvy marketing outfits would market the pass through nature of the tax and tout the savings. Others, like GE, would be left out in the cold because they pay little taxes after government bs concessions and buying tons of tax credits at a discount.
 
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