Not for profit is a misnomer. The CEO of the United Way makes close to $500K per year yet it's a not-for-profit charity.
This is completely off-topic, has nothing to do with the discussion at all, but since Colpy brought it up I'll answer it anyway. If you compare the wage of the CEO of the United Way with somebody managing the same amount of money, workers, and projects in the private sector, the salary would be much higher, the benefits more lucrative, and there would be huge yearly bonuses.
The expectation that charity and aid workers should work for free is ridiculous. If they aren't paid at least a somewhat competitive wage, they won't be there to do the job.
Why would someone want to employ a third person to look after their kids if they had a "choice" to raise them themselves?
They wouldn't. The reality of shrinking real wages caused by the reluctance of corporations to pay their employees and the influence of those corporationson government, combined with an increasingly consumerist culture that was created and promoted by the corporations that profit from it, has a created a society where both parents have to work in most families.
Are you implying that day care workers would look after your kids better than you can?
Me personally? Wolves could do a better job. Most parents, given the time and money, could do a better job than daycare workers. They don't have that time and money though, and Harper isn't giving it to them.
Why not just hand our kids over to the state and they can return them to us when they turn 18?
Paranoid rhetoric from the radical right. This is the kind of reasoning that Timmy McVeigh and that crowd from Ruby Ridge used to justify their actions.
That's not a choice. If you subsidize ONLY day care centres, then parents that choose to raise their kids on their own get left out. What ever happened to equality?
Parents who don't work can already be claimed as dependents, why can't I claim Mrs. Rev?
And they would continue to get the GST rebate. The poor would win both ways. Pay less tax and get the rebate.
But they'd still be paying GST, most of it on things that aren't luxuries since they do not have the funds to buy luxuries.
Any links supporting your claims?
I've already put the quotes up in a couple of threads. Did you not read those?
It might be the case, but if you’re going to say you can't trust the conservatives on this matter, you can't say you can trust the Liberals, and you certainly can't rust the NDP.
No, you can't "rust" the NDP. They are not made out of cheap metal like the Conservatives are.
