What should be cut???

[Hamloc]

Dml apparently my post left the wrong impression. The point I was trying to make was the present political climate in Canada is very anti business anti innovation. We need leaders cheerleading business expansion and creativity not taxing and regulating it to death.

As for cuts, the first thing that comes to mind is all the money wasted by government on advertising promoting itself. Pensions are now and will become a big issue and cost, this will require careful management.

[dmlfarmer]

Cotton: Do you feel old age security, veterans assistance, and social assistance cheques 10% too high? That they can afford a 10% monthy cut in their cheques?

[cottonpicken]

Seeing as I will will never see one and standard of living has been falling for quite some time and will continue to do so because previous generations borrowed from there children yes

[chuckChuck]

I would suggest we cut the fuel tax break on farm fuel as it just encourages over consumption and waste. If you are going to leave your diesel truck running at the rink for a 3 hour hockey game, other tax payers shouldn't give you a tax break.

Crop insurance premiums should be fully paid by farmers instead of the 50/50 split. If your not wise enough to know when a bad year is coming you shouldn't be farming.

I would also privatize the road system and go to user pay as governments overspend on roads. Drivers should pay the actual cost based on the number of km they drive each year.

The healthcare system and education system should also be privatized.

Why should I susbsidize my neighbor's kids education since I don't have any kids.

And why should hockey players get free health care when they put themselves at risk.

If you smoke, drink and are overweight pay your own health care bills. Why should I subsidize your bad habits.

[blackpowder]

Get off the dairy thing foragefarmer. Very hard sell.
Milk production would industrialize overnight. 1/3 the cost to consumer. Did we create a vibrant industry or a few paper millionaires? Either way consumers pay.

[bucket]

Some comments are so extreme mps won't listen to it.

It would be political suicide to implement that many cuts.

Not sure of the cbc issue. If I don't like what I am listening to I change channels. Pretty simple.

I get ****ing sick of xm as well. Pay for stations I never tune into.

Give me choice of 5 channels for a reasonable cost. And quit talking on it. Now xm has radio people. Cancelled it.

[perfecho]

DML, the native thing cannot be cut, we have contracts. Something has do be done to fix the root....a root we planted many years ago........

[cottonpicken]

Dm dont get me wrong it would nice if we could give everyone a million a year but we all know that wont work.

If you look at the numbers,the cost structures the inflation,the exponential growth you will see we are in big big big trouble. And none of those four ****ing twits has the balls to talk about it. That means there is absolutely no political will for meaningful change. We came to a fork in the road and have chosen the path of least resistance.

Austerity will come but it will be the bad kind,the one of the natural law ones like gravity.

The only thing that can get us out of this is technology.

[foragefarmer]

Blackpowder

What on earth makes you think dairy products to the consumer will got down. Your getting $5.00 a bushel for wheat has bread prices gone down? When beef prices were in the tank for 10 years did they go down in the store??? Again these guys work hard for their money, 24/7, 365 days a year.

Come on, you have to see through this one for lower prices to consumers not happening????? Google how big the cooperate barns are in California.

[tweety]

Forage, since when does the price of wheat have anything to do with the price of bread in a store?

In that 6$ bushel of wheat a pound of wheat costs 10 cents. A bushel makes 90 loaves of white bread. Or roughly 6.6 cents of wheat in a loaf of bread - to you Mr farmer.

A little math should help you understand that your value in a loaf of bread is almost nothing so farmers should stop talking like it is.

Its an embarrassingly poor example farmers post and tweet about how rough it is on the ol' farm by equating wheat off the farm magically becoming a loaf of bread and that they should somehow capture far more of that price then the rest of the value chain.

[dmlfarmer]

Thanks for the replies. Two things are obvious. Most respondents believe we need to cut spending and most respondents do not support, and want to cut, fed spending that they do not get a personal benefit from.

Yet the leaders of all parties continue to promise more spending to buy your votes. The National Post is keeping a running record of the election promises made. Check out http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/a-full-list-of-all-the-promises-made-so-far-in-the-canadian-election-campaign and see how many of the promises made you actually agree with and think we can afford. It makes you wonder where all the parties are going to find the way to pay for all these promises and still balance the budget.(except the Libs who admit they will run a 3 year deficit to pay for theirs)Is the party you support promising to spend money on programs which you do not want your tax dollars spent on?

[wakopa]

unless someone can have a better way i guess i would want the public to pay part of our crop ins which goes against what i say.my opoion the taxpayer wouldnt frown on this as much as the newspapers saying on the front page farmers getting billons in bailouts.farmers actually do some good in this country.another thing i would cut right now is debt reveiw board,apparently its busy again,have a decent crop ins ,and either make or break.