It’s been a week since the Honourable Jim Flaherty gave us all a big gift in the Fall Economic Statement and I just have to point something out.<\/p>\n
Jack Layton and every NDP pundit and MP have been prattling on and on about how we have missed a great opportunity and how the statement is giving big business a huge tax break.<\/p>\n
Well let’s get some of the math straight. The total cuts in the statement are a whopping $60 Billion over 5 years and approximately $15 Billion of that was targeted at businesses. This means approximately $45 Billion was targeted at Canadians.<\/p>\n
Considering I think it is quite disingenuous of Mr. Layton to say that the government is giving big tax cuts to the banks and oil companies when the truth is obviously clear that the average Canadian is the one coming out ahead.<\/p>\n And taking into account the high value of the Canadian dollar, our businesses can use, and deserve, a break.<\/p>\n So hit the road Jack….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a week since the Honourable Jim Flaherty gave us all a big gift in the Fall Economic Statement and I just have to point something out. Jack Layton and every NDP pundit and MP have been prattling on and on about how we have missed a great opportunity and how the statement is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numbers-dont-lie","category-politics-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}over half of the<\/strike> about a quarter of the income <\/font>taxes collected by our government are paid by corporations, they are actually getting the disproportionately low portion of the tax cut.<\/p>\n