Tory ridings big winners with enriched child-care benefits

[Corduroy]

Same can be said about OAS. Maybe they're wasting the money on video games too?

Depends.

Why do we reward people for having kids anyway?

It's not a reward when a Conservative government does it. It's giving back your HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS. When the Conservatives are out of government its welfare queens popping out babies for that sweet child care bonanza.

 

[mentalfloss]

One of the more sensible posts on this thread!

Except none of this will actually help kids by any significant measure.

 

[JLM]

Depends.



It's not a reward when a Conservative government does it. It's giving back your HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS. When the Conservatives are out of government its welfare queens popping out babies for that sweet child care bonanza.

Absolutely correct and when the N.D.P. does it, you know they are going to be in your pockets for decades to come, but you could be lucky and be dead.

Except none of this will actually help kids by any significant measure.

Probably not. Adversity builds character!

 

[petros]

What is human capital supposed to mean?

Look it up fool.

 

[Corduroy]

Absolutely correct and when the N.D.P. does it, you know they are going to be in your pockets for decades to come, but you could be lucky and be dead.

I'd rather be red than dead.

What is human capital supposed to mean?

Means people are things.

 

[petros]

It means people are worthy of education, health, and empowerment to not have to be on the bottom of the economic food chain.

 

[pgs]

Justin Trudeau says he’s giving his $3,400 Universal Child Care Benefit payments to charity
National Post | Canadian News, Financial News and Opinion

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau is putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to the Conservative government’s newly enhanced universal child care benefit.

The Liberal leader maintains it’s wrong to give the benefit to wealthy families that don’t need help raising their kids. And to underscore that point, he’s going to give his own family’s windfall to charity.

With three young children, one under the age of six, Trudeau is entitled to collect annual UCCB payments of about $3,400.

In an interview Tuesday, he said he’ll give that money to La Maison Bleue, a charitable group in his Montreal riding devoted to helping vulnerable women during pregnancy and the early days of motherhood.

Child care benefits should go to families who need the help, “not families like mine or Mr. (Prime Minister Stephen) Harper’s,” Trudeau told The Canadian Press.

Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press

Darryl Dyck / The Canadian PressLiberal Leader Justin Trudeau holds his then-5-month-old son Hadrien while attending the B.C. Day Liberal barbeque in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday August 4, 2014. With three young children, one under the age of six, Trudeau is entitled to collect annual UCCB payments of about $3,400. He is giving his benefit to charity.

“When it comes to child benefits, fair doesn’t mean giving everyone the same thing, it means giving people what they need.”

On the same principle, Trudeau has previously promised that he and his wife won’t take advantage of the Conservatives’ newly introduced parental income splitting scheme — forgoing some $2,000 in potential savings on his family’s annual income taxes.

Should the Liberals win this fall’s election, Trudeau is vowing to scrap income splitting for couples with children, a measure worth more than $2 billion which many experts have said would benefit primarily the top 15 per cent of income earners.

He’s promising to plow that money, and more, into a single, new, tax-free child benefit. It would replace the UCCB and two other existing child benefits with what Liberals say would be more generous payments for most parents than what they currently receive from the Conservative government.

We’re choosing to do more for the people who need it by doing less for the people who don’t. Our plan is progressive

Trudeau said he actually agrees with the Conservatives that boosting child benefits will help stimulate the sluggish economy but he fundamentally disagrees with their insistence that all families, regardless of income, should get the same amount.

Under the Liberal proposal, benefits would be gradually reduced for families with incomes of more than $150,000, and cut off entirely for those with incomes over $200,000.

“We’re choosing to do more for the people who need it by doing less for the people who don’t,” Trudeau said. “Our plan is progressive.”

He stressed that the Liberal benefit would also be tax-free, not clawed back through income taxes like the UCCB.

One more sleep until Christmas in July for Moms and Dads! #UCCB #YourKidsYourWay http://t.co/lVGwdQF07P

—
Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) July 19, 2015
The government is delivering the enhanced UCCB payments, retroactive to January, in lump sum payments to parents this week. Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre sported a shirt emblazoned with the Conservative party logo at a government event Monday to tout the payments — calling them “Christmas in July.”

“Everybody knows that Christmas is followed by a month or two in which you’re going to get the credit card bills,” Trudeau said, accusing the Conservatives of shamelessly trying to buy the votes of parents.

“Come tax time, an awful lot of families are going to have to be paying back a chunk of that child care money that’s just announced.”

Trudeau also had tough words for NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, who has promised to keep the current UCCB and introduce a program to create one million $15-a-day child spaces, which would be available to parents regardless of income.

“In both of the NDP positionings, they are continuing to give benefits and advantages to wealthy Canadians, which, quite frankly, I don’t get,” he said.

“The NDP is supposed to be the party, I mean everyone thinks of it as a party that actually helps the people who need it and doesn’t help the wealthy.”

On that score, Trudeau said he’s equally mystified that the NDP has panned his proposal to hike income taxes for the wealthiest one per cent of Canadians.

Justin Trudeau says he’s giving his $3,400 Universal Child Care Benefit payments to charity

Probably one of the charities he charged for speaking fees .

 

[JLM]

Justin Trudeau says he’s giving his $3,400 Universal Child Care Benefit payments to charity
National Post | Canadian News, Financial News and Opinion

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau is putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to the Conservative government’s newly enhanced universal child care benefit.

The Liberal leader maintains it’s wrong to give the benefit to wealthy families that don’t need help raising their kids. And to underscore that point, he’s going to give his own family’s windfall to charity.

With three young children, one under the age of six, Trudeau is entitled to collect annual UCCB payments of about $3,400.


Justin Trudeau says he’s giving his $3,400 Universal Child Care Benefit payments to charity

Looks good on the resume!

 

[gerryh]

Yes, I will be getting one free video game per month with my UCCB.

Thanks Harper!

Once again proving that giving a handout doesn't actually address the problem.

What it proves is that there are some adults that are so selfish that they will take from their own kids to satisfy their own personal greed.

 

[petros]

What it proves is that there are some adults that are so selfish that they will take from their own kids to satisfy their own personal greed.

Or adult males who get mad because the payments is in the wife's name and she won't let him blow it on electronics and rum.

 

[gerryh]

Except none of this will actually help kids by any significant measure.

Especially if they have parents like yourself that will go out and buy video games with the money.

 

[taxslave]

I'd rather be red than dead.



Means people are things.

You would really rather live on your knees than die on your feet?

 

[mentalfloss]

Especially if they have parents like yourself that will go out and buy video games with the money.

You are doing a good job in making my case that we should not simply be giving people money.

 

[gerryh]

You are doing a good job in making my case that we should not simply be giving people money.

Oh, I know. Like every other nanny state lover, you would rather the government spend it for them.


Government run daycares where the actual cost per child to the tax payer will be 3X what a private daycare would charge, or upto 5X what a private day home would charge.


We all know what you would prefer.

 

[mentalfloss]

It can be any service, not strictly daycare.

Otherwise just call it like it is and say it is a cash handout for people to do whatever they hell they want to do with it.

Don't call it a child benefit, when the money could be used for cheap hookers.

 

[JLM]

Don’t spend that child care benefit, mom and dad

• posted Jul 16, 2015 at 9:00 PM

Editor: The barrage of blatant vote buying ads has arrived on television and in the mail.
A cheque for $2,460 made out to “Mom and Dad” adorns the cover of our MP’s ad mail, which the taxpayers of Canada paid for.
What’s notable is the deception of what is not mentioned. These UCCB (universal child care benefit) payments are fully taxable, at rates between 20 and 45 per cent here in B.C.
Furthermore, the child amount deduction of $2,255 per child has been eliminated on the 2015 personal tax return. That will cost every parent $451 in additional taxes for every child. So, mom and dad, you’d better not spend that new “benefit,” because you’ll have to pay back most of it next April when you file your taxes.

David Truman​

Brookswood Tax Services​

Don’t spend that child care benefit, mom and dad - Langley Times​

What I'd like to get to the bottom is what's purported in the O.P. that the bulk of the money is being distributed to Tory led ridings. Is this in fact true or is it just some more "sour grapes" bull sh*t. ??

 

[petros]

It can be any service, not strictly daycare.

Otherwise just call it like it is and say it is a cash handout for people to do whatever they hell they want to do with it.

Don't call it a child benefit, when the money could be used for cheap hookers.

Mothers will blow the money they get for their children's benefit on cheap hookers?

What I'd like to get to the bottom is what's purported in the O.P. that the bulk of the money is being distributed to Tory led ridings. Is this in fact true or is it just some more "sour grapes" bull sh*t. ??

What do you think?

 

[JLM]

Mothers will blow the money they get for their children's benefit on cheap hookers?


What do you think?

Well, I haven't heard Jr. & Mulcair screaming!

 

[mentalfloss]

Mothers will blow the money they get for their children's benefit on cheap hookers?

Have you been to Toronto?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Don't call it a child benefit, when the money could be used for cheap hookers.

What if it's spent on child hookers? Would that be OK?