On the good ship Harper Valdez

Friday, December 21, 2007

On the good ship Harper Valdez

(Sung to the tune of The Good Ship Lollipop)

On the good ship Harper Valdez
Where we're headed is anyone's guess
Little Jimbo plays
Making mincemeat out of senior's nest eggs

On the good ship Haper Valdez
It's a short trip to a fiscal mess
Surplus heading south
Soon we'll all be living hand to mouth

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/12/21/budget.html?ref=rss

3 comments:

Tootrusting said...: Nice cartoon.

It says it all, even if you never invested in Income Trusts YOU will be paying for the mess.

Welcome to Harpers version of economics and accountability.; December 21, 2007 at 5:32 PM
Anonymous said...: Brent for PM!; December 21, 2007 at 5:58 PM
Anonymous said...: IT For Income Trusts

Remember, Remember
The 1st Of November
The Conservative's Income Trust Treason And Plot

I Know Of No Reason
Why The Income Trust Treason
Should Ever Be Forgot; December 23, 2007 at 4:42 PM

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As you well know, the ‘income trust thing’ has grown beyond the question of whether fair taxes are paid on income from trusts. It’s become a giant dirty snowball, and as it rolls forward it accumulates more and more bulk. There are so many unanswered questions. Let's list a few and invite our "Accountable" government and our free press to provide some much-needed answers.

It is said “Trusts are inefficient use of capital. Why?” Two related questions are ‘Whose money is it, anyway?’, and ‘Do Canadian investors have a free and efficient market?’

How can information that is already in the public domain at SEDAR make for a state secret? How could such information be used to harm the Canadian national interest? And who would cause the harm?

Why won’t the Canadian media investigate the falsehoods and misrepresentations told by the Minister of Finance to a committee of Parliament? Was the Minister in contempt of Parliament?

Why won’t the Canadian media report (a) government tax revenues gained from BCE in 2006 when BCE was a corporation to (b) government tax revenues that would be gained in 2007 from BCE, if BCE had been allowed to proceed to a trust, and (c) government tax revenues that will be gained in 2007 from BCE, when BCE ownership has been carved up as 45% foreign ownership and 55% large Canadian pension fund ownership?

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