Comments on: How the NDP bought my vote http://techlifepost.com/2008/10/03/how-the-ndp-bought-my-vote/ Living with technology. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:22:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: vickiz http://techlifepost.com/2008/10/03/how-the-ndp-bought-my-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-66 vickiz Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:10:54 +0000 http://www.dailyzette.com/?p=52#comment-66 Clarification appreciated. You've got a motherlode of topics to mine just discussing technology's effects on families. Clarification appreciated. You’ve got a motherlode of topics to mine just discussing technology’s effects on families.

]]> By: Danielle Donders http://techlifepost.com/2008/10/03/how-the-ndp-bought-my-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Danielle Donders Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:17:53 +0000 http://www.dailyzette.com/?p=52#comment-63 Hi Lynn, thanks for your comment. I tried to e-mail you a response, but your address is not valid. This post was written before we narrowed the focus of my column to life with technology. Chalk it up to growing pains! Hi Lynn, thanks for your comment. I tried to e-mail you a response, but your address is not valid. This post was written before we narrowed the focus of my column to life with technology. Chalk it up to growing pains!

]]> By: Lynn H http://techlifepost.com/2008/10/03/how-the-ndp-bought-my-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Lynn H Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:42:03 +0000 http://www.dailyzette.com/?p=52#comment-62 What is the digital or technology part of this story? What is the digital or technology part of this story?

]]> By: Danielle http://techlifepost.com/2008/10/03/how-the-ndp-bought-my-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Danielle Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:15:54 +0000 http://www.dailyzette.com/?p=52#comment-25 Yeah, Darin, you got me. I was so into this whole child-rearing scheme just for the profits. Didn't work out quite like I planned, though. Even if the gov't was forking over the kind of cash the NDP offered, it would take six years just to pay off the cost of our fertility treatments -- that the gov't ALSO doesn't pay for. I guess I should have thought this one through a little more. *eyeball roll* Yeah, Darin, you got me. I was so into this whole child-rearing scheme just for the profits. Didn’t work out quite like I planned, though. Even if the gov’t was forking over the kind of cash the NDP offered, it would take six years just to pay off the cost of our fertility treatments — that the gov’t ALSO doesn’t pay for. I guess I should have thought this one through a little more.

*eyeball roll*

]]> By: Darin Cowan http://techlifepost.com/2008/10/03/how-the-ndp-bought-my-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Darin Cowan Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:47:29 +0000 http://www.dailyzette.com/?p=52#comment-24 I'm a big fan of "plan how you are going to support your family, and care for your children before you have them so the government doesn't need to give you handouts." Bearing the cost of raising children is the responsibility of the parents who have them, not the public at large. And while it benefits everyone to ensure that children aren't starving in the streets, it isn't fair to pay people to have children or allow them to squeeze of a brood while forcing the state to cover the costs of child care so mom and dad can both work and live a life of relative luxury. Now if we can just get that "senior citizens are exempt school taxes" repealed... I’m a big fan of “plan how you are going to support your family, and care for your children before you have them so the government doesn’t need to give you handouts.”

Bearing the cost of raising children is the responsibility of the parents who have them, not the public at large. And while it benefits everyone to ensure that children aren’t starving in the streets, it isn’t fair to pay people to have children or allow them to squeeze of a brood while forcing the state to cover the costs of child care so mom and dad can both work and live a life of relative luxury.

Now if we can just get that “senior citizens are exempt school taxes” repealed…

]]> By: Eric Jacksch http://techlifepost.com/2008/10/03/how-the-ndp-bought-my-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Eric Jacksch Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:40:50 +0000 http://www.dailyzette.com/?p=52#comment-3 The NDP also proposed $400/month per child, but there's a catch -- it's only for those with a family income of less than $38k. And guess whose pockets that money will come out of? Of course, since they also want to raise corporate taxes (thereby encouraging businesses to spend less money, hire fewer people, and perhaps even leave Canada), an increasing number of families would become eligible. The NDP also proposed $400/month per child, but there’s a catch — it’s only for those with a family income of less than $38k. And guess whose pockets that money will come out of?

Of course, since they also want to raise corporate taxes (thereby encouraging businesses to spend less money, hire fewer people, and perhaps even leave Canada), an increasing number of families would become eligible.

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