Parveen Kaler

I actually like the Conservative tax plan. It is simple. Simple is beautiful.

The cut in GST would save me about $30 every month. The increase in the basic exemption would save me about $150 every year. Since I am not in the bottom tax bracket, the shaving from %16 to %15 for the bottom tax bracket doesn’t directly affect me. Maybe there is a single mother somewhere that can purchase diapers. Her son will grow up and not break into my car. That would be most excellent.

All told that is about $600 extra a year for me to blow on gin and tonics.

The universe would be out of balance if I did not take away with the other hand. The Conservative child care plan is flat out retarted. Stillborn even. It is a tax cut being masqueraded ostensibly as a social program. And a rebate is the worst type of tax cut.

So let me go out a buy a TV. I’ll pay $1000 for said TV. I will drag the box home, cut out the UPC code, photocopy my receipt, jam it all into an envelope, and wait 6-8 weeks to get $75 back. In the meantime, I will perform a shaman ritual to ensure that my particulars are not lost on transit from our world to the world where the accountants reside.

I digress. Something came out of Stephen Harper’s mouth that was not fecal matter. I thought I would jot it down since I don’t expect it to happen again any time soon.