NHL Free Agent Frenzy 2013 - Melnyk's Budget Edition

tim1_2 wrote:

wprager wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:

wprager wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:This is a piss-poor day to decide to do your taxes on.  

I hate doing taxes even though I get $$ back.  It's really demoralizing when it's in-your-face how much you have given to those morons.   My father-in-law didn't finish highschool but still ended up with a job which allowed him to come home for lunch, raise five kids in a small house, and go on a family vacation to Ocean Park (Maine) every year.  And his wife mostly stayed home.  We've got two good salaries but still have 10 years to go before we are mortgage free, and even when the mortgage is paid we would still be paying probably over $700 a month in residential taxes (that's assuming the assessments keep going up just 5% a year -- they've been going up 7% for the last 10).

The price you pay for living in the best country on the planet.

Can I get a refund?

No, but you can get out.

tim1_2 wrote:

wprager wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:

wprager wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:This is a piss-poor day to decide to do your taxes on.  

I hate doing taxes even though I get $$ back.  It's really demoralizing when it's in-your-face how much you have given to those morons.   My father-in-law didn't finish highschool but still ended up with a job which allowed him to come home for lunch, raise five kids in a small house, and go on a family vacation to Ocean Park (Maine) every year.  And his wife mostly stayed home.  We've got two good salaries but still have 10 years to go before we are mortgage free, and even when the mortgage is paid we would still be paying probably over $700 a month in residential taxes (that's assuming the assessments keep going up just 5% a year -- they've been going up 7% for the last 10).

The price you pay for living in the best country on the planet.

Can I get a refund?

No, but you can get out.

Hoags wrote:

LeKing wrote:Did I say the Internet was a joke?

@ctvottmornlive: .@TSNBobMcKenzie reports Daniel Alfredsson has signed with Detroit.

Brennan fell for it too  

wprager wrote:
Wait a minute ...

You're under 40, right? My son is 16. He thinks paying taxes is great, too.

If you're not voting Liberal when you're 20 you've got no heart. If you're not voting Conservative by the time you're 40, you've got no brain.

wprager wrote:Canada would be an even better country if the money was spent better. Surely you don't disagree with that, right? Year-end budget buying sprees -- does it make it a better country if every random government department bought new chairs or new PCs or new whatever just so the could spend their entire budget? That happens every year, everywhere. It doesn't happen in the private sector, for some reason.

wprager wrote:Canada would be an even better country if the money was spent better.  Surely you don't disagree with that, right?  Year-end budget buying sprees -- does it make it a better country if every random government department bought new chairs or new PCs or new whatever just so the could spend their entire budget?  That happens every year, everywhere.  It doesn't happen in the private sector, for some reason.  

SeawaySensFan wrote:

wprager wrote:Canada would be an even better country if the money was spent better.  Surely you don't disagree with that, right?  Year-end budget buying sprees -- does it make it a better country if every random government department bought new chairs or new PCs or new whatever just so the could spend their entire budget?  That happens every year, everywhere.  It doesn't happen in the private sector, for some reason.  

It does. Around tax time profitable companies throw perfectly good stuff in the dumpster and buy new stuff to avoid paying taxes. I've participated in the exercise.

You ever try to buy a pen in the government? Or ask for a computer that doesn't take 20 mins. to boot up?  Didn't think so. You might get that during the "year-end budget buying sprees", if you're lucky but usually not.

wprager wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

wprager wrote:Canada would be an even better country if the money was spent better.  Surely you don't disagree with that, right?  Year-end budget buying sprees -- does it make it a better country if every random government department bought new chairs or new PCs or new whatever just so the could spend their entire budget?  That happens every year, everywhere.  It doesn't happen in the private sector, for some reason.  

It does. Around tax time profitable companies throw perfectly good stuff in the dumpster and buy new stuff to avoid paying taxes. I've participated in the exercise.

You ever try to buy a pen in the government? Or ask for a computer that doesn't take 20 mins. to boot up?  Didn't think so. You might get that during the "year-end budget buying sprees", if you're lucky but usually not.

Lots of other examples. The stimulus money, for example. Come out to Kanata and see the bridge they built over the Carp "river". I am not even being figurative when I say I could jump over this "river" in most places -- and I'm over 50. The only reason they built it was because the Feds were giving municipalities stimulus money to fund infrastructure projects. That bridge was completely unnecessary, but the Feds said the money had to be spent on infrastructure, so it got spent.

wprager wrote:

SeawaySensFan wrote:

wprager wrote:Canada would be an even better country if the money was spent better.  Surely you don't disagree with that, right?  Year-end budget buying sprees -- does it make it a better country if every random government department bought new chairs or new PCs or new whatever just so the could spend their entire budget?  That happens every year, everywhere.  It doesn't happen in the private sector, for some reason.  

It does. Around tax time profitable companies throw perfectly good stuff in the dumpster and buy new stuff to avoid paying taxes. I've participated in the exercise.

You ever try to buy a pen in the government? Or ask for a computer that doesn't take 20 mins. to boot up?  Didn't think so. You might get that during the "year-end budget buying sprees", if you're lucky but usually not.

Lots of other examples.  The stimulus money, for example.  Come out to Kanata and see the bridge they built over the Carp "river".  I am not even being figurative when I say I could jump over this "river" in most places -- and I'm over 50.  The only reason they built it was because the Feds were giving municipalities stimulus money to fund infrastructure projects.  That bridge was completely unnecessary, but the Feds said the money had to be spent on infrastructure, so it got spent.

LeKing wrote:From someone who has lived in disastrous countries, I can confirm there is not a lot better than Canada.

LeKing wrote:From someone who has lived in disastrous countries, I can confirm there is not a lot better than Canada.

NEELY wrote:I don't feel as bad as I thought once it set in.  IMO if they sign Clarkson I think it is a move that makes the Sens better maybe not tomorrow but the year after and when all the guys are ready to make an expected run at the cup.  

NEELY wrote:I don't feel as bad as I thought once it set in.  IMO if they sign Clarkson I think it is a move that makes the Sens better maybe not tomorrow but the year after and when all the guys are ready to make an expected run at the cup.  

LeKing wrote:

NEELY wrote:I don't feel as bad as I thought once it set in.  IMO if they sign Clarkson I think it is a move that makes the Sens better maybe not tomorrow but the year after and when all the guys are ready to make an expected run at the cup.  

I don't feel bad for the Sens in general at all. In fact it's good for the organization that we are moving on.
It's more personal than anything else.