Boo hoo.
Posted on 12/23/2017 6:34:32 PM PST by simpson96
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau once remarked that Canada's relationship with the United States was like sleeping next to an elephant: "No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."
Well, forget twitches and grunts. With the biggest tax cut in decades being signed into law south of the border, the elephant is about to start doing somersaults in the bed – and if our own politicians don't take action, the Canadian economy could end up getting squashed.(snip)
Policy wonks south of the border will debate the pros and cons of the bill, which will see taxes go down for the vast majority of Americans. But from a Canadian standpoint, we should be focused on what it means for our country's tax competitiveness.
Previously, Canada could boast about lower business taxes: the Canadian average combined federal-provincial rate of 26.7 per cent, compared favourably to an American average combined federal-state rate of 39.1 per cent. That advantage is now history: with passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the new average American rate is just 26 per cent.
Worse still, the Trudeau government is heading in the opposite direction on taxes generally: while it recently resurrected a promise to lower taxes for small business, the general rate is unchanged. It has promised a national carbon tax in 2018, scheduled a payroll tax hike beginning in 2019 to pay for higher Canada Pension Plan contributions, and even introduced an automatic tax escalator on alcohol.
While the government did cut income taxes last year, one study suggested that the average Canadian family was actually paying an additional $840 in taxes.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
Lumberjack Song
Monty Python
I’m a lumberjack
And I’m OK
I sleep all night and I work all day
(He’s a lumberjack
And he’s OK
He sleeps all night and he works all day)
I cut down trees
I eat my lunch
I go to the lavatry’
On Wednesdays I go shopping
And have buttered scones for tea
(He cuts down trees
He eats his lunch
He goes to the lavatry’
On Wednesdays He goes shopping
And has buttered scones for tea
I cut down trees)
I’m a lumberjack
And I’m OK
I sleep all night and I work all day
I cut down trees
I skip and jump
I like to press wild flowers
I put on women’s’ clothing and hang around in bars
(He cuts down trees
He skips and jumps
He likes to press wild flowers
He puts on women’s’ clothing and hang around in bars?)
I’m a lumberjack
And I’m OK
I sleep all night and I work all day
I cut down trees
I wear high heels
Suspendies’ and a bra
I wish I’d been a girly
Just like my dear pa-pa
(He cuts down trees
He wears high heels?)
(He’s a lumberjack
And he’s ok
He sleeps all night and he works all day)
Won’t happen.
Canada will do fine.
Remember, their press is infected with the same stupidity drug what infects ours.
“Most of the world seems heavily dependent on the idea that America will happily go on losing, transferring our wealth to them forever.”
Which means we all were right when we said we were being fleeced.
“It’s not gonna be that easy. How many missionaries do you know who speak Canadian?”
ehh.
Boo hoo.
Lumberjacks? They’re ok I hear.
CANADIAN MINISTER OF MOVIES: This is not aboot diplomacy, this is aboot dignity...
AMERICAN DELEGATION: [laughing]
CANADIAN MINISTER OF MOVIES: ...This is aboot respect. This is aboot realising that humans...
AMERICAN DELEGATION: [laughing]
CANADIAN AMBASSADOR: You guys are d___s!
All the missionaries have to know is “aboat”, “sorey”, “oh, yah” and “eh?”
Haha.
Canada could, you know, implement pro growth policies and rope in socialism a bit?
I know, I know ... fantasy!
It has promised a national carbon tax in 2018,
...
How lovely.
I’m so glad Trump won.
“It’s not gonna be that easy. How many missionaries do you know who speak Canadian?
You forgot the “eh?”
I'm going to my mum's hoose and drink some beers and have some smokes, eh.
“Can we just annex them, send in missionaries...”
Probably not even necessary in the Prairie Provinces, they’re ready tonight...that is, if it doesn’t interfere with hockey.
Hey hoser, take off, eh? For the Great White North. It's a beauty way to go, eh?
The globalists hate Trump. Another positive sign.
There already are gun stores everywhere up here. We should just make sure everyone has mandatory ownership.
“It’s not gonna be that easy. How many missionaries do you know who speak Canadian?”
Not many, Hoser! Eh?
All that the idiot socialist Trudeau liberal government can do is follow Trump’s lead by cutting corporate taxes and middle class income tax?
Don’t hold your breath, Trudeau would rather ruin Canada itself than traduce his own socialist values.
IN short, Trudeau is an idiot.
Canadians have tired of him.
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