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How a core member of Team Trudeau became the PM�s greatest threat
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�No decision is ever final�: Attorney General David Lametti as SNC-Lavalin affair continues
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From: "Mahmood Elahi"
To: <letters@nationalpost.com>,
Subject: Taxing the rich
The Editor
National Post
With U.S. facing trillion-dollar deficit, taxing the rich to pay for tuition-free higher education will be disastrous
Re: �Soaking the already sopping rich,� by William Watson, Feb. 28.
U.S. President Donald Trump always brags about his trillion-dollar corporate tax cut, but he never mentions that the United States a staggering $779 billion budget deficit and borrowing heavily from China. In fact, China is bankrolling America�s near trillion-dollar budget deficit.
Now, Senator Bernie Sanders, who is again seeking Democratic nomination for 2020 presidential race, wants to raise taxes on the rich to pay for tuition-free higher education. With U.S. already running a huge deficit, he will have to raise taxes massively to finance multi-trillion extra-spending for higher education.
Such a massive tax-hike will trigger a capital flight from the United States, taking away jobs and investment with it. America is a capitalist country and cannot become a socialist country where all means of production are publicly owned. Fortunately, neo-socialists like Bernie will never be elected as the president of the United States.
The U.S. doesn�t need to raise or cut taxes. Without Trump�s trillion-dollar tax cut, the budget would have been balanced and poverty can be reduced without punishing the rich.
MAHMOOD ELAHI
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From: <jfeldsted@shaw.ca>
To: <jfeldsted@shaw.ca>
Subject: Interesting political comment
Interesting political comment
I have read some interesting political comment respecting the SNC-Lavalin in recent days.
Much favourable comment is in respect to the Honorable Jody Wilson-Boudreau and her presentation to the House of Commons Justice Committee. She stood her ground on legal principles and refused to be bullied into applying political expediency to thwart the independence of criminal prosecutions.
Others pan Ms Wilson-Boudreau as a Liberal and thus one of the pack of miscreants behind the SNC-Lavalin mess. That is obviously an incorrect and blindly partisan view. Liberals who accuse her of being a traitor to the party are condoning unlawful activities of the PMO.
In half a century of observing politics I submit that there are ethical, honest hard-working members of every major political party. It is misleading and wrong not to admit that the �other parties� don�t have some outstanding individuals worthy of our respect.
We have allowed our federal elections to morph into a US style presidential election with all the focus on Party Leaders. Leaders represent about 0.3% of the electorate, those electors resident in his or her home electoral district. The remaining 99.7% of electors are represented by other MPs.
Party leaders are given far too much power over the other members elected for the Party. The leader hires strategists and advisors to assist with policy decisions rather than using his caucus of elected members for policy guidance. That is not consistent with democratic governance.
Federal election should be won on the ground in electoral districts. It is the quality of the local candidate that counts not the political party he or she represents. The candidate who appears on your doorstep telling you his or her party will do this or that is clueless. We don�t need more brain-dead cogs in a party machine claiming to represent us. If they are not free to disagree with �The Leader� in debates and votes, they are not representing us.
If we want to improve our representation in government, we have to look past the Leadership/Party election hype and look at our local representatives closely. Can he or she stand up to the unrelenting pressures to conform to Leader/Party demands that are concocted by unelected Party officials and hired strategists?
There is nothing wrong with party representatives hanging together. If they do not, they will surely hang separately. However, the nut of the conundrum is what policies and principles they collectively support. Those policies and principles should be those they create through discussion and debate, not those they are handed as �talking points�.
We must stop funding political parties from the public purse. Following the 2015 election, political parties were reimbursed for 50% of eligible election expenses:
Registered party Reimbursement TOTAL $60,655,195
There is no sound reason why we should reimburse political parties for expenses they incurred for election arm-twisting. In addition to the above, candidates in the 2015 election who attained at least 10% of the votes cast in their electoral district were reimbursed for 60% of eligible election expenses:
Political Affiliation Reimbursement TOTAL $42,696,289
I don�t have a problem with reimbursement of candidate expenses; we need to attract quality candidates and election battles should be held in the electoral district, not on a national basis. The same is not true for political parties.
The expense limits for political parties, calculated by Elections Canada are ludicrous. The limits for the 2015 election were skewed badly due to the extended writ period which roughly doubled expense limits. Taking that into account and decreasing expense limits to pre-extension levels, limits were about:
Name of Party Expenses Limit TOTAL $140,630,111.07
No wonder we are inundated with election advertising to the point of nausea during an election campaign. The spending limits should be reduced by half or more. If a major political party cannot run a six-week election campaign on $15 million, something is very wrong.The above numbers do not include spending by third parties; political action groups, unions and so on who try to influence our voting preferences.
In addition, during an election campaign, electoral district candidates for the major parties are given an expense limit of about $100,000 each. Bear in mind that those are expense limits, not what is actually spent. Many local campaigns don�t raise $100K in support, so actual expenses are lower than limits. Reimbursements are based on actual eligible expenses incurred.
The calculations are obviously skewed in favour of major political parties.
I believe that democracy would be enhanced if we eliminated public funding of political parties through reimbursement of election expenses and required them to raise funds by appealing to electors directly. Those are the people who decide who will be elected and become representatives for everyone. Their voices should matter more than they do.
John Feldsted
E-mail John for figures of individual parties
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