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 [...]
Preamble: I’m not a big fan of writing about US politics. I do follow events fairly closely and keep myself informed. I prefer to keep my views and analysis to myself. A conversation about US politics is usually a race to determine if a person should be labelled liberal or conservative. Ad hominem attacks usually [...]
From a comment from by previous post on STV: this is a feel-good proposal that doesn’t really solve any of the underlying problems. >> Which are? There is quantization error transforming the (input signal/citizens’ votes/polygon) to the (output signal/elected representation/pixels). The mathematical forumla used to process (samples/votes/fragments) is your filter kernel. Your (sample/vote/fragment) may contributes [...]
Belinda Stronach announed earlier today that she is defecting to the Liberals and from this day forth she be referred to as Hollywood Belinda Stronach. Peter MacKay was not available for comment as he was attempting to put Jack Layton in the scorpion deathlock. Layton’s flock looked on in bewilderment and provided little to no [...]
Tomorrow is election day here in BC. So go out and vote you dumbasses. Anyway, regarding the Citizen’s Assembly on Electoral Reform, you should really vote no for the Single Transferable Vote system. I’m gonna assume that you are aware of the background, history, and context. If not, start here: http://www.cbc.ca/bcvotes2005/features/stv.html Firstly, opponents of the [...]