{"id":719,"date":"2006-01-18T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=719"},"modified":"2006-01-18T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T23:58:00","slug":"soyons-clair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Soyons Clair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat Tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/jasoncherniak.blogspot.com\/\">Jason Cherniak<\/a> for showing me the error of my ways. As per his suggestion, I will now be &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/my-vote.html#c113761516518852076\">blogging accordingly<\/a>&#8221; to my Liberal affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, here are a few random thoughts I have on the election:<\/p>\n<p>1. When talking about his virtual elimination of the capital gains tax today, Mr. Harper stated &#8220;there is a lot of misinformation here. Only half of those who pay this tax earn above the average income.&#8221; (Stephen Harper, St. Pauls, January 18, 2006)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true, there is a lot of misinformation and spin on this issue, and it&#8217;s coming from Mr. Harper. Did you know that 95 per cent of tax filers do not even claim capital gains? That two-thirds of the total capital gains are claimed by the 140,000 Canadians earning more than $100,000?<\/p>\n<p>In the last debates, Mr. Harper claimed his strength wasn&#8217;t &#8216;spin&#8217;. Could have fooled me.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Stephen Harper&#8217;s New Deal = No Deal!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today in Toronto, Stephen Harper confirmed the New Deal for Cities and Communities would be stalled under a Conservative government. Stephen Harper says he will &#8216;honour&#8217; what the Paul Martin government has already put in place, but that&#8217;s it &#8211; no more!<\/p>\n<p>3. Jack Layton is consistent in one thing: he ALWAYS puts politics before people.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> Scott Feschuck has a great blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberal.ca\/blogs_e.aspx?itype=131\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>FACT CHECK:<\/em><\/strong> Maybe this was a tad dry, but it seems very few people caught on that this was a word for word rehashing of Liberal talking points&#8230; I don&#8217;t even understand what I posted on the Capital Gains Tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat Tip to Jason Cherniak for showing me the error of my ways. As per his suggestion, I will now be &#8220;blogging accordingly&#8221; to my Liberal affiliation. With that in mind, here are a few random thoughts I have on the election: 1. When talking about his virtual elimination of the capital gains tax today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}