Harper’s Conservative Government Gives Tax Handout to Criminals
In keeping with their “Give a Criminal a Break” approach to crime, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government gave the criminal class of Canada an early Christmas present today in the announcment that the GST will be reduced for the second time during their mandate. By lowering the GST by another percentage point the Harper government has cut the marginal tax rate of those earning illegal incomes by a whopping 17%, and 29% overall since taking power.
Career criminals across the country are shouting out a collective “Booyah!” and rushing out to lay their illegally-earned cash down on new purchases of grow lamps, generators, high-speed automobiles, surveillance equipment, alarm systems and legal ammunition, thus increasing their ability to earn more illegal income and escape prosecution should the need arise. Maybe this is the Conservative productivity strategy in action: put the money in the hands of criminals to reinvest in productive capital. “We need to reward entrepreneurship,” said a glowing Jim Flaherty, “and the cuts we’ve introduced will supercharge the right sectors of our economy.”
This is one cagey government. They have courted soft Quebec-separatists by supporting the “Quebec is a Nation” proclamation; they have targeted immigrant populations with immigration reform; and now they are cozying up to a so-far untapped constituency in Canada, the professional criminal. Where this creative bunch look next for inspiration and votes is anyone’s guess. I wonder what Stockwell Day will be wearing for halloween?
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I really don’t think it’s fair of you to refer to bank and multinational CEOs as “criminals”. Those guys work really hard for their money, and they deserve all they can get. Sure, a few dozen peons have had to be destroyed and a few million lives ruined along the way, and it’s sometimes challenging to keep track of their nebulous offshore accounts and bonus packages so as to … I don’t know … perhaps … tax them, but that doesn’t make them criminals, for god’s sake! It just makes them highly motivated human beings, who deep down are just vulnerable, lovable blokes … exactly like you and me. Just better.
On a humorous note, imagine what it’s like for Stockwell Day to go out trick-or-treating in his Goldilocks outfit, just to see others walk around in their Stockwell Day costumes! Must be kind of surreal, wouldn’t you think?
Comment by Marco — Nov 1, 2007 @ 10:47 am