Wanted to point out something which no article about the funding cuts to
political parties has noted.

It's HarperCon classism disguised as a measure to eliminate a "free ride for
political parties" (quoting Jim Flaherty).

But it attacks the ability of low-income voters to contribute funding to
their party of choice. Thus, it further disenfranchises this group.

Not everyone can afford to donate to a political party. Those of us who
cannot have taken small comfort in knowing that each of our votes added
$1.75 - adjusted annually for inflation - to the fortunes of the parties we
voted for.

For some voters, low-income and not, that $1.75 was the ONLY reason we
continued to vote, since the first-past-the-post system has things so rigged
that only two parties have a hope in hell of getting elected to form the
government.

Class act, Harper! In more ways than one.

See also this, not unrelated, blog post: Depressed, Really Depressed
http://tinyurl.com/56ev96

It's all part of the same phenomenon, of disenfranchising a mushrooming
number of (former) voters.


Ocean
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