Liberal Majority or Minority?

[Cranky]

habsfaninla said:

habsaddict said:

A few years ago, before the Chinese crap broadsided my business, I had so many woman working for me that I was thinking of allocating a chunk of office space for daycare. At that time I figure it would cost about $35 an hour for two day care people. Then all of a sudden, the man and woman who didn't need daycare started to complain about how "unfair" it was that other employees would get "preferential" treatment. Of course they would stop complaining if they got an equivilant value in raises. THEN the woman who asked for and would benefit from the day care complained that they should ALSO get a raise because it would be unfair to them. To say the whole thing "pissed me off" is an understatement.

On a broader spectrum, I do believe that employers can find day care solutions for their working woman. It is fairly cheap and can be highly controlled. Mind you, it also needs an understanding and coperative work force. Some people have to grow up from demanding "their share of candy" or worse still, "I got my candy and their candy too". *sigh*

Besides.......if I had in-house daycare. I could always send an unproductive worker to suck on a soother!

American values, but they apply to Canada too:

Let's put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand.

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner. The bill for all ten
comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes,it would go
something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh $7.
The eighth $12.
The ninth $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that's what they decided to do.
The ten men ate dinner in the restaurant every day and seemed quite happy
with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.
"Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the
cost of your daily meal by $20."
Now dinner for the ten only cost $80. The group still wanted to pay their
bill the way we pay our taxes. So, the first four men were unaffected.
They would still eat for free
But what about the other six, the paying customers? How could they divide
the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share'?
The six men realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they
subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man
would each end up being 'PAID' to eat their meal.
The restaurant owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's
bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts
each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% savings).
The seventh now paid $5 instead of $7 (28% savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to
eat for free. But once outside the restaurant, they began to compare their
savings.
"I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man. He pointed to
the tenth man "but he got $10!"
"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too.
It's unfair that he got ten times more than me!"
"That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I
got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!"
"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get
anything at all. The system exploits the poor!" The nine men surrounded the
tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for dinner, so the nine sat down
and ate without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered
something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for
even half of the bill!
And that is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and
they just may not show up at the table anymore.


Long read, but those are my sentiments explained.

In Canada, the nine man vote for a political party that finds the best ways to tax the tenth man. Actually, the Liberals promise to tax the hell off the tenth man while the party lines it's pockets with tax dollars and the party LEADER shelters HIS company in a offshore tax heaven.