Canadian election

[Chaerophon]

The argument goes that the existence of private providers will eventually lead to a two-tier system. That's a logically fallacious slippery-slope argument.

'Fraid not. It's a legitimate fear, particularly given the fact that he would render us all but dependent on private services with his tax cuts and massive military spending. But that's not really the problem. The problem is this:

contracting private health care providers to provide the services that they can't.

The federal government could quite easily cover health care expenses if it was not for the large falls in corporate tax rates over the past decade. The models of Scandinavian countries and much of the rest of Western Europe demonstrate the feasibility of maintaining corporate tax rates at levels conducive to a more redistributive state, with greater equity among citizens, while maintaining competitive economies. I could tramp out a parade of statistics exposing this fact, but I don't think that it is necessary. The argument that we NEED to bend further to private enterprises in the interests of our economy is ridiculous. Scaring off a few corporations thanks to slightly higher corporate income tax rates that would earn government coffers billions would be more in the interest of the public good than is readjusting our socioeconomic infrastructure in order to accomodate global corporations who have little to no interest in the equitable distribution of public services. Because our major media outlets are all owned by massive corporate interest, the bad press to arise from the flight of a few corporations would be sure to result in the voting out of power of the incumbent government thanks to the loss of our "competitive edge" vis a vis the Americans; however, the results of opening ourselves to the whims of global capital are only beneficial to the Canadian citizenry up until a point, at which time those socio-economic values that differentiate and identify us as a social collectivity are erased and the slippery-slope is engaged.

Sorry. I don't agree with you.