Culture Guard: Win an Autographed Copy of Michael Coren’s “Heresy”

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May 112012
 

We have obtained five copies of Michael Coren’s latest best-seller, “Heresy”, personally autographed by the man himself! Tune in to hear Kari Simpson and Ron Gray announce the contest rules that can put one of these gems on your own shelf!

Five ways to win!

Contest ends July 1, 2012

Rules (Enter Any One or All!):

1 – Most e-mail addresses that subscribe.

Send us email addresses of your friends and family. We’ll invite them to subscribe to RKR’s newsletter, and we’ll give an autographed copy of Michael Coren’s book, “Heresy”, to the person with the most friends who subscribe.

2 – Best letter to the Prime Minister on the abortion debate.

Send a copy of your letter to us. We’ll publish some of the best ones, and give a copy of Michael Coren’s book, “Heresy”, to the one our judges like best.

3 – How to fix education.

Send us your suggestions. We’ll publish some of the best ones, and give a copy of Michael Coren’s book, “Heresy”, to the one our judges like best.

4 – How to make judges accountable to the people.

Send us your suggestions. We’ll publish some of the best ones, and give a copy of Michael Coren’s book, “Heresy”, to the one our judges like best.

5 – Best program idea for any RoadKillRadio.com program.

Send us your suggestions. We’ll give a copy of Michael Coren’s book, “Heresy”, to the one our judges like best.

Does the PM read RKR News?

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Apr 092011
 

Is someone on Stephen Harper’s strategy team reading RoadKill Radio News? Maybe; maybe not; but the Prime Minister’s latest campaign announcement sounds a lot like a recent commentary here.

The PM says if he wins a majority, he’ll end all taxpayer subsidies to political parties. In addition, other Tory spokesmen have said unions and corporations should not be allowed to make political donations. Why not? Because they’re dealing with other people’s money: funds that properly belong to union members or corporate shareholders—and not all of them will agree with management’s political use of their money.

That sounds like a direct quote from a commentary posted here last month!

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “It is tyrannical to compel a man to pay for the promulgation of ideas with which he does not agree.” To force taxpayers to support political parties whose policies they find repugnant, is tyranny!

But that’s what happens now: every Canadian taxpayer gives $2 a year to support political parties according to a formula devised by who? The four parties in the House of Commons! They divide about $30 million a year of your money among themselves, plus (sometimes) the Green Party.

Hmm RoadKill Radio thinks this is a good plan!! Axe this political tax!

Election financing: let the taxpayers say who’s going to get our money!

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Feb 182011
 

The Prime Minister’s plan to end direct taxpayer subsidies to federal political parties—by which the parties already in the House get almost $30 million a year from taxpayers who may or may not want to subsidize them—is sound. It just doesn’t go far enough in correcting the basic error.

Thomas Jefferson said, “It is tyrannical to compel a man to pay for the promulgation of ideas with which he does not agree.” By that dictum, Canada’s funding of political parties is wildly tyrannical.

But it doesn’t have to be. We can both have public funding and end the tyranny. Here’s how:

Our income tax return forms should include a statement something like this: Two dollars of your taxes will be used to help support the democratic political process in Canada. You may designate which registered federal political party receives your $2. If no party is designated, your $2 will go into a non-partisan fund administered by Elections Canada, to teach students and immigrants how Canadian democracy works.

Under such a plan, the cost to taxpayers would be no more than it is now; but not a penny of any taxpayers’ money would be spent for the support of politicians whom s/he does not endorse.

An ancillary benefit would be that, without waiting for the next election, taxpayers could give politicians an annual “report card” on how well they are representing the electorate.

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