Budget 2018: Ontario Can't Afford Doug Ford's Cuts

Curious Cdn

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Wouldn't fuel get cheaper if you cut the Carbon tax? Is there any other hidden gems in the fuel tax that can be cut with the program that it is tied into?

All that Ford can do to influence the pump price of gas is to cut any provincial taxes levied on the gas. Carbon tax is one. Ontario, though, is seriously hooked on all of that sin-tax revenue and something else will have to go "up" to cover the shortfall. It's a great "chicken in every pot" slogan, though and there is an old tradition of this sort of nonsense.
 

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Doug Ford is promising cheaper gas. How is he going to do that? Why not just let the market decide? He's just as bad as Wynne and Horwath promising to the ignorant masses what will clearly be outside his powers to promise short of subsidizing it if necessary. Is that what he's promising? whither the fiscal conservative?


He is going to remove the carbon tax/cap&trade&give money to California levy on the gas which amounts to about 10cents per litre.

Regardless of whatever you think, there would still be a federally imposed carbon price.

Drug Fraud would cost the taxpayers with that move because he has no plan.


It likely won't stand up in court.
 

mentalfloss

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No, it had to do with the fact that they consulted with real life lawyers that told them they would be compete idiots to fight it.

The NDP in BC would do well to get the same lawyers on the Trans pipeline.
 

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Hoid

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It really is the trump thing all over again.

A man who is enormously unqualified for the job who is going to get it anyway because politics makes everybody vomit.
 

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It really is the trump thing all over again.

A man who is enormously unqualified for the job who is going to get it anyway because politics makes everybody vomit.
Are you talking about your illustrious PM ?
 

Danbones

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Neighbor's kid just got a dishwashing job with the new minimum wage. Well, guess what?
;)
The government is paying his employer the difference from the old minimum wage to make up the new wage, or he wouldn't have a job to offer.

I take it this is common right across the province..till AFTER THE ELECTION.

It really is the trump thing all over again.

A man who is enormously unqualified for the job who is going to get it anyway because politics makes everybody vomit.

He be mucha more qualified than his critics.
;)
Obviously since he keeps turning out to be right, while you guuuuuuuuyals keep turning out to be wro...left.
 

mentalfloss

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It really is the trump thing all over again.

A man who is enormously unqualified for the job who is going to get it anyway because politics makes everybody vomit.

Well, it's moreso a legion of dumb people but yea, apparently people hate government enough to put themselves in a worse position.

So we already have Trumptards and soon we'll have Dougtards.

At least we can have a good laugh about a Conservative government piling on more debt than the other two.
 

Hoid

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Magically debt does not count when conservatives are in office.

White nationalist climate change deniers cease caring about it.