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We host forums on a wide range of topics including: tax cuts, tax rage, tax revolutions,
government downsizing, corporate rightsizing – well, you get the idea. We reserve the Right.
Of course, we will occasionally post the odd, infantile, pinko-addled polemic
to demonstrate we are “objective.” See below for sample posts from our current forums.
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Sample posts
From the 'Why Government Sucks' Forum
The world has gone mad! Empty space, everywhere. The sky is empty. There are no logos on park benches. Trees just stand there, barren of meaning. Where are the marketing departments? They make brief appearances on the outside of municipal buses, in primary school videos, and above the urinal at my local pub. But is that enough? Is it? I swear, this country is looking more like Mongolia every day.
This insanity is only getting worse. During a recent hospital stay I saw nothing, not a shred of advertising. How are patients to heal without being assisted and informed as to the most effective means for departing with their hard-earned dollars? And this in a hospital that had to call in a doctor from across town to complete my assessment! You bet I gave them a piece of my mind.
And how do you think they responded? An invitation to stay longer at the taxpayers’ expense. Days and days spent in a government institution, and I ask you: was there any product placement? Nary a swoosh.
In the future, Canadians only have themselves to blame if they’re forced to live in Yurts and chase down wild horse. Can it be true? Can it be, “Ulan Bator, here we come?”
Allan Webster, Durham/Northumberland/Lennox-Addington/Frontenac Region School Board Member, Enfield, Ontario
From the 'Tax Rage' forum
I have been an avid follower of your newspaper since before its inception. Initially, I was optimistic that you would embody your proprietor’s stated intention of providing balanced and fair coverage of the issues of the day. Lately, however, I have become deeply disturbed over the ideological bias that is slipping into your publication.
For example, I have noticed a consistent but increasing tendency for your publication to report on (and rely on) the research and publications of the Fraser Institute.
Although the Fraser Institute was once a mainstream, objective and reasonable organization – 25 years later, it is a sad left-wing shell of its former self. How else do you explain articles they have published such as “The Limits of Privatization,” “Capital Punishment is No Deterrent” and their seemingly open advocation of drug legalization to reduce crime.
The Fraser Institute’s recent book, Tax Facts 11 (widely quoted and reviewed by your newspaper) included an article by Nelson Riis, a commissar for the communist-front NDP, which invoked the Mephistopheles of Medicare, that Saskatchewan Satan – Tommy Douglas! In the preface, Institute executive director Michael Walker wrote, “Every Canadian would agree that a tax rate of zero per cent would be too low.” It’s this type of defeatist pandering to the socialists that will defeat the cause of righteousness.
More troubling, however, is your newspaper’s recent co-optation and hollowing out of the tax revolt movement. You have been aggressively promoting your over-taxation features and tax rage forums led by columnist Jonathan Chevreau. While I am gratified that you seem to have embraced our movement against taxes, I am troubled by your choice of figurehead.
In a recent column, Chevreau endorsed the idea that “no taxpayer will object to paying a fair percentage of her income,” up to 50 per cent??!! This may qualify him for statist sainthood, but hardly for leadership of a tax revolt. Our holy goal is the elimination of taxation and these quarter-measures are merely a Trojan horse that will play into the hands of tax-addicted bureaucrats and the fiendish pusher-politicians that steal from the rest of us to feed their nefarious habit.
When the National Post was launched, I was shocked at your shameless toadying to godless socialists by hiring Linda McQuaig. But I put this down to youthful exuberance and hoped that it was just a momentary lack of judgement. Now I feel it is my duty to warn you that your publication is in mortal danger of becoming just another dribble in the overwhelming Canadian media “avalanche of soft, left pap.” You are hereby on notice that I am strongly considering the cancellation of my free introductory subscription.
Troy Lanigan, BC Taxpayers Federation, Victoria, BC
From the 'Rich White Guys Finish First' forum
Yesterday while on my way to work, I tripped over a young woman and child taking a nap on a sewer grate. They had deemed it their duty to hinder access to my place of work unfettered by their unsightly appearance. Nonetheless I made my way to the office, putting in a hard day’s scraping profit off the bottom line.
When I left, they were still there. As I was driving home it occurred to me how many young people there are just lying around, without any pride of place or purpose. Day after day spent relaxing outside, while the majority of the hard-working citizenry put in long days ponying for the nanny state.
Do I have kids? No. Do I pay for slacker teachers to take the summers off? Yes. Am I on welfare? No. Do I pay for these leeches to breed and take crack? You bet.
I for one would like to applaud your newspaper for coming to the defence of single, working, white men like myself who are sick and tired of being taxed by a nanny state that tells me that my self-interest is not enlightened. If I want an assault rifle, give me a god-damned assault rifle!
Bart Maverick, Anytown, Alberta
Speaking of odd, infantile, pinko-addled polemic-- check out this one from our 'Crackpot' forum
As the proprietor of the Sherbrooke Record, one of the few remaining independent newspapers in Quebec, I am deeply vexed over the state of media ownership today.
We operate a small-circulation, non-chain newspaper and can’t reasonably afford our own printing press. This makes me reliant on my competitor – Quebec media colossus Power Corp. – who prints my paper in Granby, a distance of some thirty miles away. When I recently spoke in public about my discomfiture with the rapid concentration of media ownership and openly criticized Power Corp., so serious was the deterioration of our relationship with our printer, that we are now obliged to transfer our business to the only other printer in the geographic area, whose place of business is in the state of Vermont.
I realize my young age of only 25 years may make my statements seem naive. Some may say that with age and wisdom, I will come to understand there is nothing to worry about. However, I can’t stand docilely by and witness what is happening to Canadian newspapers.
In my opinion, further consolidation towards monopolistic situations is reprehensible and monopolies are undesirable. Diversity of opinion and aggressive newsgathering tend to disappear with the disappearance of competition, and public opinion could thereby become more hostage to private interests than to public policy.
C. Black, Sherbrooke, Quebec
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