[quote]ElbowStrike wrote:
Mikeyali wrote:
ElbowStrike wrote:
Steadily increase the child tax credit by $1000 every year until the birth rate matches the death rate.
The birth rate per woman is currently at 2.09. I think that’s about as steady as you can ask for.
mike
OP asked “if you were in charge”, not “if you were President”. 
Canadian birth rate is 1.57 children born/woman (2008 est.).
We have been importing people like you wouldn’t believe, under the guise of “Multiculturalism” – a cheap Liberal ploy to pad the minority vote.
ElbowStrike[/quote]
People from 3rd world countries are much more amenable to tyrannical governments and oppression. That’s one reason why Kennedy here made it so hard for an educated European to come here, but illiterate serfs from barbarian countries get in much more easily.
I don’t know all the facts, but I have heard that since Russia instituted a flat 13% tax that money has been flooding into the government coffers.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
People from 3rd world countries are much more amenable to tyrannical governments and oppression. That’s one reason why Kennedy here made it so hard for an educated European to come here, but illiterate serfs from barbarian countries get in much more easily.[/quote]
Indeed. Our Leaders in times past gave immigration priority to British, American, and Australian immigrants on the basis of “cultural compatibility”.
The “wise, Liberal” leaders that followed decided that this was a “racist” policy and instead instituted their own racist policies to discriminate against whites.
Luckily, Harper and the Conservative Party are reforming immigration to be based on employability.
Those with job skills the economy needs (tradespeople and engineers) will be fast-tracked. Uneducated refugees from barbarian nations can sit and wait their turn. Forever, if necessary.
ElbowStrike
I would totally abolish taxes. This means all executive positions would take a 100% paycut. I’d all but dismantle the cabinet. I would get rid of DoD and rename it Dept of War and only activate it when congress declares war. We would have only a voluntary, non-active military.
For the departments that remained in tact I would tell them to become profitable or perish. The way I see it is that if there was a need for them to exist they would be able to efficiently serve a customer base.
I would push to make congress a non-paid post – they would need to keep their regular full time job and legislating will only be part time. The SCotUS would work completely off of fees.
There would be no more federal welfare or warfare programs. All necessary programs will be paid for by users of the system. Welfare will become the job of non-profit workers.
Economic freedom is step one to a government free society.
[quote]ElbowStrike wrote:
We have been importing people like you wouldn’t believe, under the guise of “Multiculturalism” – a cheap Liberal ploy to pad the minority vote.
ElbowStrike[/quote]
You realize we have a Conservative government, right? And they are actually planning on allowing the Minister to allow line-jumping for immigration at the sole discretion of the Minister.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
I would totally abolish taxes. This means all executive positions would take a 100% paycut. I’d all but dismantle the cabinet. I would get rid of DoD and rename it Dept of War and only activate it when congress declares war. We would have only a voluntary, non-active military. [/quote]
Wow. Seriously? The only people that you would have in executive positions would be the already wealthy and they would be twice as apt to be cutting side deals for themselves.
I could understand killing the DHS and slimming down the military (I’m big on shrinking the guys on active duty and expanding the reserves with them knowing they’ll get activated at least once, if only to serve active duty in CONUS), but to go to an all active-duty military would not be a good idea at all. Come on Lifty, have you seen the army guard? They suck hard.
mike
[quote]Ruggerlife wrote:
You realize we have a Conservative government, right? And they are actually planning on allowing the Minister to allow line-jumping for immigration at the sole discretion of the Minister.[/quote]
Yes.
After decades of Liberal monopoly in the House of Commons, we have a Conservative minority government that needs the approval of the opposition before it can do anything of significance.
Despite that, Harper’s been doing one hell of a job.
Next election I’d like to see them get a slim majority.
ElbowStrike
[quote]ElbowStrike wrote:
Ruggerlife wrote:
You realize we have a Conservative government, right? And they are actually planning on allowing the Minister to allow line-jumping for immigration at the sole discretion of the Minister.
Yes.
After decades of Liberal monopoly in the House of Commons, we have a Conservative minority government that needs the approval of the opposition before it can do anything of significance.
Despite that, Harper’s been doing one hell of a job.
Next election I’d like to see them get a slim majority.
ElbowStrike[/quote]
I don’t necessarily disagree with the policy, just the fact that it’s a sole Minister’s decision without sufficient checks and balances.
I only pointed it out because I don’t like people painting immigration as a liberal policy. The Liberals were in power for ~13 years (not decades) and the Conservatives held power for the ~10 years prior to that. Both parties use immigration to try to influence new voters, it is not a one-sided affair.