Create your own Political Party

[Fozzie_DeBear]

Just for fun...if you were to create a new Provincial Party in Alberta, what would it stand for? Give 3 or more examples of key policies or platforms that you think should be a provincial focus. For example my list would be:

-Focus on rebuilding the Alberta Heritage Fund...move back to original formula of something like 30% of resource revenue flowing into fund
-Establish a modest sales tax 2% will ALL revenue flowing into the fund. Legally not possible to use tax revenue for Government operations
-Increase Auditor Generals power to help ensure transparency regarding program operations and (as much as possible) outcomes
-Focus upon developing the 'next-generation' economy...Alberta's Oil and Gas economy can't last forever and it will take a long time to grow other parts of the economy.

[undercoverbrother]

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[#-3]

I'v always had this crazy notion that the problem is voter education.

If voters had to take the time to educate themselves we would attract and elect better people, who could actually effect change on our representative bodies.

I think to be allowed to vote 1 hour of participation/attendance at a debate, Q&A, or info session should be mandatory. Allowing anyone who cares to vote, but reducing the voter pool who just select based on broad notions of the leaders they get from the news, would provide better representation for all of us.

The Danger they would have to avoid with this system is finding a way to make those session easily accessible to the lower/middle class working population. So it is not just Stay at home Moms, College Students, and people with Lobbying interests voting in every election.

either way I really feel out system needs a slight paradigm shift, because on a local level politicians spend so much money getting elected individually and we just end up electing the party.

[Slava]

I don't have time to type out a huge political philosophy here, but I think I would consider myself some kind of "economic libertarian". I just want the government out of my wallet, and out of business in a lot of ways. I want to see the elimination of income tax and base the system entirely on consumption taxes. Curiously, and perhaps paradoxically I don't have a big concern with crown corporations, but the idea of grants and subsidies to private business should be eliminated as well.

On the income tax front, this to me is a completely backwards system. I make more money and probably create more jobs via spending and investment and for that helping hand I pay higher taxes? Seems like a great way to make people not want to earn more money, or at least stay under a threshold! Instead, the system should be based on consumption. The idea that every year we go through this song and dance where I save receipts and pieces of paper so that the government can pay someone to flip through that junk in order to verify that I contributed to my RRSP and what not is ridiculous. A complete waste of money, and it just doesn't have to be that way.

As far as the government subsidies to business, its even more inane. They collect money from say my business, and then give that to a competitor because they have filled out a grant application, or found a project that qualifies for some cash. Or more than likely someone made a donation or attended a political fundraiser to get a plum-contract. Just ridiculous.

Its weird because more and more I just want the government out of a lot of things, but I'm the furthest thing from a Ron Paul or anything like that. I guess I just think that there are some things that the government does, and does well, and there are other things they just get in the way of and should have no part. Who knows, maybe one day I'll be located just right of Hitler on the political scale!

[Flash Walken]

Consumption taxes incentivise spending income outside of the taxed zone, which means less dollars are going into the local economy. People from Cranbrook for example, making major purchases in Calgary.

Increasing income taxes and creating more partially deductible consumption exemptions encourages more localized spending and less wealth accumulation squirreled away or spent in other jurisdictions.

My opinion, anyway.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

The Iron Fist party, with me as the leader. That way I can rule with an Iron Fist.

Goals of the Iron Fist party.

1. My new bed is a pile of money with many beautiful ladies.
2. Annex Saskatchewan. Park my car in Saskatchewan as it is clearly shown on maps to be Canada's parking stall.
3. Eliminate Arts faculties and degrees from Alberta's post-secondary institutions. Those are hobbies, not jobs.
4. Build my own legislature, with blackjack and hookers.
5. In fact, forget the legislature and the blackjack.
6. Round up all Quebec refugees hiding in Alberta. Exile them to the most inhumane place known to man: Quebec.

[jammies]

Originally Posted by Handsome B. Wonderful

The Iron Fist party, with me as the leader. That way I can rule with an Iron Fist.

Goals of the Iron Fist party.

1. My new bed is a pile of money with many beautiful ladies.
2. Annex Saskatchewan. Park my car in Saskatchewan as it is clearly shown on maps to be Canada's parking stall.
3. Eliminate Arts faculties and degrees from Alberta's post-secondary institutions. Those are hobbies, not jobs.
4. Build my own legislature, with blackjack and hookers.
5. In fact, forget the legislature and the blackjack.
6. Round up all Quebec refugees hiding in Alberta. Exile them to the most inhumane place known to man: Quebec.

Goal #6 seems to interfere with goal #1 and possibly goal #4. Therefore, I cannot in good conscience vote for you.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Originally Posted by jammies

Goal #6 seems to interfere with goal #1 and possibly goal #4. Therefore, I cannot in good conscience vote for you.

It sounds like someone is asking for a one way bus ticket to Quebec.

[CaptainCrunch]

I'd like to offer my services to your cabal as Minister of Torture

[Northendzone]

i want to rewrite the constitution so that we each get a comely lass of virtue true.....other than that i want to be the minister of getting down or the minister of gettin' jiggy wit it (and that would be whatever the polls or voters tell me "it" currently is)

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I'd like to offer my services to your cabal as Minister of Torture

I hope you have references.

Please keep in mind that Torture responsibilities are both internal and external. Expectations for external torture include:

• Promising jobs to Nova Scotians, then sending them Fort McMurray, in the winter, to work at Tim Hortons.
• Showing pictures of trees to Saskatchewanians.
• Rigging elections in Toronto to ensure Rob Ford is mayor for the rest of his life.
• Maintaining a steady supply of hearts, lungs, and livers to keep Rob Ford lifespan longer than 6 weeks.
• Incorporating restaurants with English names in Quebec, followed by distributing flyers and menus in English. Refuse to serve poutine.
• Running pipeline projects through BC that are visible from space and form a giant 1978 Vancouver Canucks uniform, yellow version, with yellow helmet.

[LanceUppercut]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I'd like to offer my services to your cabal as Minister of Torture

Taking the easy job I see. All you have to do is sit them down to watch an Oilers game.

[octothorp]

The Highspeed Electric Rail Party*

Party Slogan: Shiny! Fast! Magnetic! Neat!

1. A Calgary - Red Deer - Edmonton - Fort McMurray Maglev line plus an additional Calgary-banff line.
2. Huge, moderist, European-architect-designed stations in each city.
3. Outrageous tolls on motorists travelling between these destinations with less than 3 people in their vehicle.


*Supporters of my party will be affectionately called HERPes.

[Jacks]

^^^ Don't I know you?

[vanisleflamesfan]

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