Chinese workers are buying SUVs and big sedans while the U.S. Congress is demanding that we use rickshaws, bicycles and walking. The Democrats in Congress are happy that the price of gasoline is so high. They do not have to pay for it, because we pay it for them.

Meanwhile, China is drilling for oil not far from off our Atlantic coast to harvest our domestic oil out from under us while the U.S. Congress keeps it illegal for our companies to harvest our oil off shore.

For most Canadians, filing income taxes provides a sobering reminder of just how much income tax they paid last year, say the Fraser Institute’s Niels Veldhuis and Milagros Palacios. However, the reality is that income taxes form only a portion of the total tax bill imposed on Canadians by the governments — federal, provincial and local.

The overall global temperature has been gradually decreasing since 1998, which was the warmest year since the end of the Little Ice Age a little more than 100 years ago. If the Keenlyside study is correct, the ongoing cooling will have lasted for roughly 20 years by the time it ends.

The union adopted a new amendment to its constitution at last month’s SEIU convention, requiring that every local contribute an amount equal to $6 per member per year to the union’s national political action committee; this is in addition to regular union dues.
Unions that fail to meet the requirement must contribute an amount in “local union funds” equal to the “deficiency,” plus a 50 percent penalty.