Forget waiting for the budget. Balance it now!

[mentalfloss]

Nice little app from the Globe where YOU get to be the finance minister.

So you wanna be finance minister? See how you do balancing Ottawa's books - The Globe and Mail

 

[Goober]

Nice little app from the Globe where YOU get to be the finance minister.

So you wanna be finance minister? See how you do balancing Ottawa's books - The Globe and Mail

Not for me - to honest.

 

[petros]

Is the budget everything we have to spend or simply what is allotted for spending? What's the total in the cookie jar to work with?

 

[Colpy]

Nice little app from the Globe where YOU get to be the finance minister.

So you wanna be finance minister? See how you do balancing Ottawa's books - The Globe and Mail

DONE! and I have a surplus....

The only question is whether I will be re-elected in 2015.

 

[Tonington]

DONE! and I have a surplus....

The only question is whether I will be re-elected in 2015.

Depends on your choices, spill the beans bean counter!

 

[Colpy]

Depends on your choices, spill the beans bean counter!

GST up 2% and added to food..........with compensation for lower income families.

Corporate tax rate up 1%.

Good-bye Arts funding.

Good-bye 10% of foreign aid money.

Each ministry cut 10%.

Corporate tax deductions for meals and entertainment trashed.

Oh! I increased the personal tax rate by 1% over $250,000

I eliminated the Regional Development agencies.

Eliminated the Public Transit tax credit.

Eliminated both the Children's fitness and Art tax credit.

Eliminated the tax credit for union dues.

Cut House spending by 10%

 

[Tonington]

I don't think there is any question over whether or not you would be re-elected with those choices :lol:

 

[petros]

Selling our 20% stake in GM would be one to add to the list.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

Fun, got down to a deficit of $10 billion.

- extend GST to food

- 1% increase in corporate tax rate

- 1% increase on incomes over $250,000

- 10% percent cut across the board for fed govt, (it''s better to cut existing programs that have lost their uselfulness, but this never happens as they develop political clients that resist it)

- eliminate deductions for union and professional dues

- eliminate corporate deductions for meals, golf etc

- eliminate deduction for clergy

- cut child fitness and arts credit

- eliminate publci transit credit

- cut foriegn aid budget by 10%

 

[petros]

Make MPs take turns mowing the grass on the Hill.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

I was in Ottawa and saw the grounds in front of Parliament. The grass should be removed and covered with nice stonework so people can have demonstrations without worrying about making piles of mud.

 

[petros]

I was in Ottawa and saw the grounds in front of Parliament. The grass should be removed and covered with nice stonework so people can have demonstrations without worrying about making piles of mud.

Pee leaves stains.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

Lots of squares in the world put up with pee stains.

Grass in front of Parliament shows how the middle class hate demonstrations because grass is for sports and picnics. Save money on mowing and fixing it up every few years like they do. When I was in Ottawa a few years back, it was summer and the grass was muddy. Public works in Ottawa is public graft.

 

[petros]

Rock isn't cheap.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

Neither is grass if you replace it every two years.

 

[damngrumpy]

actually cancelling the tax breaks for religious organizations would be good
professional fees and union dues alright, and business donations and the
idea that people who invest in things like mining and oil would pay their tax
on the full amount of their profit not fifty percent of it. There are likely some
savings in other areas, but I do not agree. I believe arts funding should be
kept and educational funds should not be taxed.
The problem is you cannot simply cut it all at once because the financial and
social instability would cause a massive collapse of the whole governmental
system.
Simply put, to keep order, and to ensure there is a hope of getting re-elected
you can't simply slash and burn to that extend. Paul Martin did a good job
when he did what he did. I didn't like some of it but it was the right thing to do.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

I ddin't see anything in the app about cutting aboriginal costs INAF, easy, cut 10%, one billion bucks. Direct less money to chiefs and more to rank and file and you get more economic growth. I'm at a $9 bilion deficit. The economy booms with me and I win in a landslide in 2015.

 

[Tonington]

Direct less money to chiefs and more to rank and file and you get more economic growth. I'm at a $9 bilion deficit. The economy booms with me and I win in a landslide in 2015.

Less money to chiefs will spur economic growth? How? That's some fantasy voodoo economics.

 

[mentalfloss]

GST up 2% and added to food..........with compensation for lower income families.

Corporate tax rate up 1%.

Colpy raises taxes?

Oh! I increased the personal tax rate by 1% over $250,000

 

[Vanni Fucci]

Vanni's 10 Step Balanced Budget:

1. Extend the GST to food and increase GST rebate to compensate low-income households
2. Restore the 2-point GST cut that was made by the Harper government
3. Increase the federal-corporate-income tax rate by one percentage point
4. Increase the small-business-tax rate by one percentage point
5. Increase the tax rate on incomes above $250,000 by 1 percentage point
6. Make an across-the-board 10-per-cent cut to all federal ministries and crown corporations
7. Eliminate tax deduction for union and professional dues
8. Eliminate partial deduction of meals and entertainment expenses for corporations
9. Eliminate deduction for clergy residence
10. 1 Billion dollar surplus to give myself a big fat ****in' raise! Fuccian Economics Baby! You know I earned it!