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With a per capita GDP of around $46,000 taking up allmost a quarter of it for one level of government's spending doesn't look sustainable. The US GDP is around $13.75 trillion. The how big is a trillion stuff goes off the deep end however when it goes on to compare $1 with 1 year. May as well...

The Volokh Conspiracy, Gaza and Egypt: Gaza and Egypt: Sixty years ago, when Egypt occupied Gaza, it refused to grant the local Arab residents, native Gazans and refugees from the Arab-Israeli war of 1947-48, citizenship. Instead, the Egyptian government intentionally cut them off from Egypt...

There is the concept of the time value of money. Even if you pay out the exact same $ in tax 30 years from now as you would have paid today just having that money for 30 years is valuable. For example you save $300 in tax this year by making RRSP contributions, invested at 4%/year it will be...

You seem to have missed the flow of the discussion. A statement was made that an RRSP would be pointless under a flat tax. A response listed the advantages of an RRSP and some comments on which of them would still hold true under a flat tax.

One line of thought is the surge worked in part because Al-Qaeda concentrated on winning the political battle in the west and treated the Iraqi population very poorly. In the Machiavellian sense they made the populace feel contempt instead of fear. A very advantageous situation in which to...

Roosevelt died on April 12, Truman was briefed in detail Wednesday April 25th by Stimson and Groves about the Manhattan project. That leaves over three months before the use of the bombs on August 6th and 8th with a lot of significant events between like Victory in Europe (May 7 and May 8)...

IT tends to chase the latest fads and has an astonishingly high project failure rate. Not a good model for other fields. I work in IT as well.

Without specifics this is too vague to comment on. There certainly are some charities it would not be appropriate to support as part of a school project.

The +/- 3.1% 19 times out of 20 is definitely at the low end of poll accuracy. The document also takes too many liberties in stating facts about the results from the sample and applying them to the whole population. The use of a 10th of a percent column in the figures in various tables is also...

Requiring enrollment in an insurance plan as a requirement for employment is also common. I don't see anything odd or uncommon with the top up coverage or the mandatory nature of the SISIP policy. It is very much like what is available and practiced elsewhere. Most such plans are not indexed to...

Here are the benefits description for unrelated LDT policy: Note the same 'top up' or 'claw back' depending on how you view it just like SISIP in the last paragraph. Another example, part of the description of the Long Term Disability Benefits of the Ontario Teachers Insurance Plan. Again...

When you purchased SISIP coverage the policy was clear in this regard and they have lived up to it. So one question would be is the coverage somehow illegal? The answer sure looks like no. Top up policies that add on to any current coverage or other benefits have a long history. These type of...

The lawsuit in question has no real chance of legal success. It's only chance is to hype it till maybe public pressure makes the government give in. I got a very short SISP presentation when I was in the Reserves and even in the short time they had they got across the in effect 'clawback' very...

Religion holds no monoply here. Hitler, Mao, Hirohito and Stalin and the movements they were part of were all just as supremacist as some religious movements and caused incalculable misery and death. All are a path to ruin through the actions they take and their intolerance to other ideas.

Harper was asked by the Governor General of Canada to form the government and as such the Conservatives are in power as long as they have the confidence of parliament. There have been several votes put forward as confidence votes and they all passed. That means a majority of the members of...

Indoctrination along those lines seems to becoming more and more widespread. University's indoctrination rates as mind control. Seems like a provocative and overly alarmist title until you read about the details of the program itself and then it seems spot on. (list of materials) It saddens me...

Depending on how you define poverty a substantial number of those classified as such pay significant GST each year. The GST/HST credit is meant to offset the costs of paying the GST but isn't indexed to or calculated off the GST as far as I know. That means savings to even the lowest income...

Participation : We are still there. Operations: OPSEC means you won't be getting specific answers. In the general sense deployments allways highlight deficiencies in equipment and operations that can be papered over or ignored in peacetime. Also there is a need to adapt as the situation on the...

The 70% over ten years works out to a 5.5% annual increase. Not much more than inflation depending on the year.

What the uproar (from Rush's side) is about: they picked a small sound bite and gave it a meaning the actual context does not give it. To then write a letter condemning their own invented interpretation of what Rush said based on this small sound bite shows either major dishonestly or very minor...