Stimulate the Economy -- Forgive Student Loans!

[soleta_nf]

My friend asked me to post this for the Americans on my flist:

Stimulate the Economy -- Forgive Student Loans!It's a cause I completely agree with and support. If there were a similar petition in Canada, I would sign it in a heartbeat

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appropriate icon - can't wait for it to be irrelevant

[soleta_nf]

The N.B. Liberals are doing worse than the N.B. Conservatives did, which I didn't think was possible. I think it adds insult to injury that they're supposed to be small-l liberal but they aren't acting that way at all. I don't even know if I'd characterize their behaviour as "conservative" either. It's just "idiotic." (ex. Trying to cancel French immersion in schools until people freaked out and they had to compromise; firing all school librarians to save money until people freaked out and they had to reverse that decision; etc.)

Re: appropriate icon - can't wait for it to be irrelevant

[soleta_nf]

They tried to cancel immersion for grades 1-6. They've compromised and now they've only cancelled it for grades 1-3. They seem to be naive about what how things will go over with the public.

You have taxes on food? Wow. That has always been an exception wherever I've lived (Ontario and NB). We have a harmonized tax here, which means that now we pay double tax on clothing (used to only be 7%), though books are still only one tax, and there's no tax on groceries (pop, chips and other 'non-essentials' yes, but not basic food).

Why are they creating a harmonized tax? They only did it here because 15% on everything seemed like a decent alternative to 16% on most things. It's 13% now with the GST reductions.

The NB govt is giving income tax cuts, but in a "regressive" way where the rich get huge breaks but the poor get very little. I agree that policies should affect the rich more - 10% for them is much different than 10% for a poor person.