tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post8928679198002987955..comments2024-01-07T08:41:13.864-05:00Comments on C A I T I - O N L I N E: Pump it Up!Brent Fullardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08515599756822506137noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post-41636067019060281852007-10-19T17:31:00.000-04:002007-10-19T17:31:00.000-04:00Thanks, Anonymous. I watched the Hearings on CPAC ...Thanks, Anonymous. <BR/>I watched the Hearings on CPAC and missed it when they must have merely panned the camera across him; instead they had that jerk of a lawyer on who said, "If we were incompetent, we wouldn't admit it!"<BR/>That drove me nuts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post-18680977683634205282007-10-19T15:59:00.000-04:002007-10-19T15:59:00.000-04:00Paul asks "Since this Mark Carney is supposed to h...Paul asks "Since this Mark Carney is supposed to have been instrumental in the idea of taxing income trusts, why the hell wasn't he brought before the Finance Committe Hearings as a witness and questioned on it?"<BR/><BR/>Mr. Carney was there. If you check the testimony given, you'll find that he spoke once and said very little. But what the transcriber could not catch were his hand- and eye-signals to Flaherty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post-45294362010137250542007-10-16T01:26:00.000-04:002007-10-16T01:26:00.000-04:00Since this Mark Carney is supposed to have been in...Since this Mark Carney is supposed to have been instrumental in the idea of taxing income trusts, why the hell wasn't he brought before the Finance Committe Hearings as a witness and questioned on it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post-39833793338762251432007-10-13T08:07:00.000-04:002007-10-13T08:07:00.000-04:00Harper & Flaherty have publicly stated that they p...Harper & Flaherty have publicly stated that they plan on lowering the corporate tax rate to 18.5% by the year 2011.<BR/><BR/>Is this not the year (as if I would forget) that these same dorks are to raise the tax on trust distributions to 31.5% to level the playing field with corporations.<BR/><BR/>On one hand we will have corporations at the new 18.5% & on the other , we have trusts at 31.5%.<BR/><BR/>Ummmmmm--have I missed the boat somehow here--maybe my mental capacities have been dulled by a year of pain & suffering & mental anguish .<BR/><BR/>Do these numbers not add up to a level playing field or is it just me.<BR/><BR/>Of course , maybe they used calculus to do their cyphering--that stuff was always beyond me!!<BR/><BR/>mike.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post-18496564481321604152007-10-12T08:36:00.000-04:002007-10-12T08:36:00.000-04:00“…under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor ...“…under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.” Ecclesiastes 9:11<BR/><BR/><BR/>There is a story in the NY Times about an American private security company being sued in the U.S. for injury and deaths caused in Iraqi. Is it bad luck, or is the world grinding away as it should? See “Blackwater USA Is Sued by Iraqis” at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/world/middleeast/12blackwater.html?th&emc=th<BR/><BR/><BR/>So I wonder, will the Board and senior officers of BCE get sued in the U.S. for collusion with Ontario Teachers Pension Fund and senior government officials for manipulating the markets, including the NYSE? Bad things happen to the swift, strong and intelligent. Sometimes bad luck happens to topnotch people. Sometimes people cause their own luck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post-75387251857684335972007-10-11T21:15:00.000-04:002007-10-11T21:15:00.000-04:00Brent,Good blog. The whole basis of the 31.5% tax ...Brent,<BR/>Good blog. The whole basis of the 31.5% tax is so intellectually corrupt, so full of inconsistencies and incoherencies, that we really have to ask “Who is Mark Carney working for?”<BR/><BR/>Not for Canada. Not for the fair and equal treatment of investors in a free and efficient equity market. Not for the Canadian governments whose tax revenue and economic bases have been eroded (“corroded” is a better word.) So who? Who is Mark Carney really working for?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post-92041732603264378602007-10-10T22:21:00.000-04:002007-10-10T22:21:00.000-04:00IT For Income Trusts Remember, RememberThe 1st Of ...IT For Income Trusts<BR/> <BR/>Remember, Remember<BR/>The 1st Of November<BR/>The Conservative's Income Trust Treason And Plot<BR/> <BR/>I Know Of No Reason<BR/>Why The Income Trust Treason<BR/>Should Ever Be ForgotAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post-59498161053553131152007-10-10T11:20:00.000-04:002007-10-10T11:20:00.000-04:00My question is , how do these guys get away with t...My question is , how do these guys get away with this & manage to get themselves promoted in the process.<BR/><BR/>Sounds like the ideal job for a greedy old fart trust investor like myself--we have been told that we are incompetent investors along the lines of "Coupon Clippers".<BR/><BR/>It appears that being greedy & incompetent are two of the main prerequisites of the job--being an old fart is just a bonus--a 7 year term means that I will probably have the job for life.<BR/><BR/>Are there any perks with this job or do you have to derive all your satisfaction from shafting old people--if the shafting is it , then Mark Carney must be one happy SOB.<BR/><BR/>Mike.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7141615629701321642.post-81896129364389663412007-10-10T10:08:00.000-04:002007-10-10T10:08:00.000-04:00There’s a definite career progression happening fo...There’s a definite career progression happening for Mr. Carney. Having done his stint at the Department of Finance where he was instrumental in enabling legislation that makes it more difficult for Canadians to invest in their own country, and easier for foreign investors to takeover Canadian businesses, his next job involves getting Canadian money with a cheap cost of capital into the hands of his foreign friends so they can borrow from Canadians to takeover Canada.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Boy, he’ll have some resume in a few years. I wonder if Mr. Carney will be applying for Icarus’s old job.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com