Ruh-roh. You're clearly kinda prickish today. I'll come back when you're feeling better, K?
Harper heading in the wrong direction.
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i know you're a disgruntled old man that had a useless job and even more useless existence but lets not take that out on poor people.
Nice, crunchy factoid. Also wrong.
The 1% pay 37% of U.S. non-corporate INCOME taxes. There are many, many other taxes.
I have a good job, pay more in income tax than you and three of your buds collect in welfare every year. Which is what I complain about most. THose of us that work should not have to carry your fat lazy azzes around. Try being a contributor to society rather than a leach.
don't troll me. if you want to know understand this term you can use google.
The 92-year-old long-time activist, who splits his time between Canada and England, is ashamed of what has happened under the rule of Stephen Harper, and plans to make a difference as soon as he returns from the United Kingdom, where he is currently on an extensive speaking tour for Britain's Labour Party, which asked him to be a spokesman in the campaign for the May 7 election.
Smith has become a sensation for his opinion pieces and memoir Harry's Last Stand, in which he draws parallels between his brutal childhood in the U.K. and where the western world is headed today as government austerity grips many of its countries.
Those experiences, and his memory of what Canada was like in the 1950's when he came here with his family to pursue a better life, have informed a life of activism which now takes the form of opposing austerity and corporate greed.
When the British election is over, he plans to replicate his tour in Canada,in a ''full-tilt'' effort on his part to help oust Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
''Since Harper has come into power, everything has gone downhill. He has one consideration, and that is to let the rich get richer and the poor fend for themselves.''
Smith said the ''epidemic'' of child poverty in Toronto, government service cutbacks, and tax loopholes used by corporations are some of the most concerning threats facing the country today.The Canada he sees today presents a stark difference from when he first arrived in Ontario in the 1950s to start anew after serving in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
''I've seen this province and the rest of the western world slip back to a society that reminds me of my boyhood,'' Smith said. ''Today is starting to have that same edge -- the same cruelty, the same divisions between those that have, and those that have not, that polarized the 1920s.''
When he arrived here, he saw a country offering people real opportunities for establishing themselves, a country where none of his friends or neighbours had a problem with paying taxes. Most of them, having grown up in the Depression, thought services paid for by taxes were what made the country a safe and good place to live.That has all changed now, as corporations and politicians robbed the public of its social safety net, he said.
With that has come a loss of faith in our political institutions.
Smith said he will tour the country in the run-up to the Canadian election, delivering speeches aimed at youth about the perils of austerity and attacks on government services.
He said young people in Canada need to realize their futures are at risk if they don't oust Harper and vote in someone with ''compassion'' who cares about them.
Smith has an especially sharp warning for the young, disengaged among us:
[Y]oung Canadians must be warned their inaction risks the return to an uncivilized, brutish reality -- one festering with poverty and indifference to those drowning in it.Harry Smith will be returning to Canada soon and he said he's ''looking forward to seeing the back of that monster,'' Harper.I, and millions of other Canadians, wish him every success in his campaign
Here is a brief sample of Smith's early years in Britain in a moving speech he gave last year:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0_r1VQhgg&feature=player_embedded
Smith has become a sensation for his opinion pieces and memoir Harry's Last Stand, in which he draws parallels between his brutal childhood in the U.K. and where the western world is headed today as government austerity grips many of its countries.
Those experiences, and his memory of what Canada was like in the 1950's when he came here with his family to pursue a better life, have informed a life of activism which now takes the form of opposing austerity and corporate greed.
When the British election is over, he plans to replicate his tour in Canada,in a ''full-tilt'' effort on his part to help oust Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
''Since Harper has come into power, everything has gone downhill. He has one consideration, and that is to let the rich get richer and the poor fend for themselves.''
Smith said the ''epidemic'' of child poverty in Toronto, government service cutbacks, and tax loopholes used by corporations are some of the most concerning threats facing the country today.The Canada he sees today presents a stark difference from when he first arrived in Ontario in the 1950s to start anew after serving in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
''I've seen this province and the rest of the western world slip back to a society that reminds me of my boyhood,'' Smith said. ''Today is starting to have that same edge -- the same cruelty, the same divisions between those that have, and those that have not, that polarized the 1920s.''
When he arrived here, he saw a country offering people real opportunities for establishing themselves, a country where none of his friends or neighbours had a problem with paying taxes. Most of them, having grown up in the Depression, thought services paid for by taxes were what made the country a safe and good place to live.That has all changed now, as corporations and politicians robbed the public of its social safety net, he said.
With that has come a loss of faith in our political institutions.
Smith said he will tour the country in the run-up to the Canadian election, delivering speeches aimed at youth about the perils of austerity and attacks on government services.
He said young people in Canada need to realize their futures are at risk if they don't oust Harper and vote in someone with ''compassion'' who cares about them.
Smith has an especially sharp warning for the young, disengaged among us:
[Y]oung Canadians must be warned their inaction risks the return to an uncivilized, brutish reality -- one festering with poverty and indifference to those drowning in it.Harry Smith will be returning to Canada soon and he said he's ''looking forward to seeing the back of that monster,'' Harper.I, and millions of other Canadians, wish him every success in his campaign
Here is a brief sample of Smith's early years in Britain in a moving speech he gave last year:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0_r1VQhgg&feature=player_embedded
If he wants to remain a freeloader for the rest of his life he can stay in England. We don't want his kind here.
you just sound like a whiny old moron yelling at passersby from your porch. you also have an inflated sense of worth your job has and how much you contribute and your whole existence in general.
Twisting on the hook won't do you any good. Busted clean, gore. Denying it just makes you look stupid.
Er.
Easy now... You're getting the blood pressure up
Many of the additional taxes are consumption-based.
Chances are that the #'s Petros posted are low
You may wish to reread the comment I made prior to unilaterally designating them as 'facts'
PS - I really would enjoy your identifying how my comment about consumption-based taxes relative to income demographic specific contribution is flawed.
I wait with baited breath
Well, your breath smells like bait, that's for sure.
Nope, ain't gonna play, Cap. This ain't my first rodeo, and if I nail you down every corner, you'll just start dancing.
I'll pick some time you're in a good mood and we agree on something. You aren't capable of honest debate.