My Mom is 88 years old. She has a fixed income. She lives alone in a house with an oil furnace. Due to her age, she keeps the place oppressively hot.
I guess she needs to be punished.
When she goes anywhere, either I drive her (I guess I need to be punished)or she takes a taxi.........(I guess she needs to be punished some more)
She pays very little in income tax now..........so a cut will help very little.....
The increase in the cost of diesel will make everything she buys more expensive.....food included.
Well, I guess she needs to be punished a little more.....
Or perhaps she should just be regulated to a (non-existent) space in a nursing home for the good of the collective......
Deal with realities, please.
Sure lets talk about reality.
The Liberal program would provide financing to help make your mother's home more energy efficient. After she has upgraded here furnance and improved her home's insulation, her fuel bills would be about the same. Meanwhile her personal income tax would go down. If you are driving her around in a Hummer, I guess you will be punished. Otherwise, you would be better off when you pay less income tax. Taxi companies should switch to more fuel efficient vehicles. The green shift would cause that to happen and your cab fare would be about the same.
Considering your mother's situation, I can't understand why you would support the neo-Conservative Party of Canada's survival of the fittest agenda, or should I say survival of the wealthiest. Do you really believe your mother would be better off in the dog eat dog world the neocons would like to impose on Canada?
Have you thought about the implications of modelling our medicare system after the Americans? If you really care about the welfare of your mother you would be worried about how she is going to pay for privatized medicine as per the neocon agenda. Take a look at the cost of medical care in the US. Would your mother be better off if Canada was more like the US?
If you were really concerned about your mother that would make you vote NDP which has a social agenda. Social as in they will increase taxes for the wealthy to reduce poverty and take care of the elderly.
I'm at the peak of my earning years. I own my own IT consulting company. Financially I'd be better off with the Conservatives. The NDP agenda would likely increase my taxes and I'm ok with that as long as the money is well spent. I don't want Canada to become more like the US, where poor are so desperate, they knife people like me for my pocket change and wealthy people live in gated communities and carry handguns. Canada is a kinder, gentler place because of our social welfare progams. I will gladly pay more taxes so your mother gets first class medical care and can upgrade her house. I have a problem with my taxes being used to subsidize wealthy corporations as is being proposed by the neocons in the US.
By the way my mother is on an indexed pension with a great medical benefits plan because she belonged to a strong union - CUPW. Thank you socialist agenda! With the NDP, all the elderly would benefit.
