A Moment of Insanity

While perusing the CBC website yesterday I came across an article about income splitting. Has the [Conservative] government actually made a suggestion I'd be happy to see put into action?

I have always been told that there are tax benefits for married people - that's a big, fat lie. Now I certainly didn't marry for tax purposes, and I certainly didn't see any advantages when Colin and I filed jointly this year. In fact, the bloody government is asking me to payback the my GST rebates I earned in my final year before marriage.

How's that request going: They're the Canadian government, I'm part Scottish - they'll bug me to death till they get their $140; over my dead body they'll see that $140...

Yesterday's news made me think (for a split second), hey Harper and the Conservatives aren't so bad... then I read Rick Mercer's blog today...

Thanks Rick for bringing me back to reality. How quickly we forget Harper's priministerial acceptance speech: "God bless Canada" (no, he's not Bush's puppet); or the one promise he actually broke - he screwed the income trusts - I still haven't check my RSPs...

I'm all over income splitting, but I'm more over a Liberal majority. Actually I long for the day the progressive conservatives stage their coup d'etat and reclaim their identity (and party) yanked away by that wolf in sheep's clothing: the Reform/Alliance party...