Please Raise My Taxes. And Harper Eats Babies.

Praise the Over Lord! Heather Mallick of the Toronto Star has finally said what so many of us just knew all along, ‘we don’t pay enough taxes.’ “In fact, just about every mess we’re in is because we don’t pay enough of them.”
You know, because we only pay on average 42% of our incomes in [...]

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April 16, 2011  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  5 Comments

CTV Power Play: Reality check on fiscal conservatism

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April 11, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content, TV & Radio  3 Comments

Go Ahead, Make My Day ~ Published in The Landowner magazine

The following article appears in the July 2010 issue of The Landowner magazine.
“I know what you’re thinking. ‘Did he spend $60 billion or only 50?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement and stimulus I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is an overtaxed country with a half trillion [...]

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September 21, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  Comments Closed

Video: Don’t be a FCINO Mr. Prime Minister

Please share this video from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

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February 8, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  One Comment

Leftist Echos of Harper’s ‘97 Essay “Our Benign Dictatorship”

In 1997, Stephen Harper and Tom Flanagan jointly penned an essay titled “Our Benign Dictatorship” in which they laid out why the Liberal government of the time was essentially undefeatable, as well as what would be required for it’s defeat.  Namely, they pointed to electoral co-operation (between Reform and the PCs) in the form of [...]

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February 8, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  7 Comments

Published in the National Post ~ Derek Fildebrandt: Make Senate reform a confidence vote

The following article appears in the January 25, 2010 edition of the National Post, & Canada Free Press.

Few politicians are thought to have Senate reform in their blood the way Prime Minister Stephen Harper does. Having campaigned for it beginning in the late 1980s and winning two general elections with it as a significant part [...]

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January 25, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Published  One Comment

‘Stimulus Exit Plan’ Won’t Work Without Cutting Spending

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty today stated that Canada’s deficit will be eliminated over a five year period with no spending cuts or tax hikes. All will be well if we restrain spending for a few years and allow revenue to grow. With all due respect, that just not [...]

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December 22, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Blog Content  2 Comments