Small Market Media Tax Credit
Small towns are seeing their local newspapers, radio and tv stations lay off staff, and in some instances close. Businesses in towns with populations of less than 10,000 should receive a 50% non refundable tax credit for advertising with local media. This will reduce the advertising costs for small businesses, and generate more demand for local media, and spur local business investment/hiring. This may be enough for some stations to re-open and re-hire.

Main Street Job Creation
Job creation comes from an increased demand for existing goods and services OR demand for a new product or service. The current program of paving roads does not create long term jobs, once the pot hole is filled the job is over, and has little or no impact local jobs.

Make Health and Fitness Tax Deductible
Physical fitness is a priority, and the healthier our population is, the lower our health care costs will be. Making gym memberships, fitness classes, little league, dance classes etc. fully tax deductible will increase demand for these services, generating jobs and a healthier population. There should be no age limits placed on the participant.

Make live entertainment tax deductible
Night life is almost non existent in small towns. Most Hotels, bars, bowling allies and movie theatres have closed, and there is virtually no live entertainment.

All Live entertainment should be fully tax deductible. This includes plays, musicians, D.J.s, Comedians and any other live entertainment. Popular musicians/bands/comedians should be encouraged to tour these towns, a low cost unplugged show would sell out in every town, and boost tourism. This would also allow local musicians to have a venue and gain experience as local opening acts.

Restaurants
All dine-in family meals over $30 (excluding booze) should be tax deductible provided they tip at least 10%.
This would be a huge boon to the restaurant industry allowing for the hiring of more staff, and stimulate investment in the community.

Janitorial/Misc:
Maid Service, Carpet Cleaning, Car Detailing, Gardeners should be tax deductible.
These are labour intensive services, that most people would love to use if it was in their budget. Demand for these services would pick up overnight, generating job growth.

Legalize Marijuana and tax it
Aggressive enforcement is ineffective and costly, and only increases profits for drug dealers. Thinking that people are going to stop consuming marijuana is absurd. Marijuana is a high profit, labour intensive industry which currently does not pay income tax, rent retail space or collect sales tax.

44% of Canadians say they have smoked marijuana, that works out to 14.5 million people.

Over 600,000 Canadians have a criminal record for possession of marijuana. These “criminals” are ineligible for some jobs simply because they got caught doing what 44% of the population has admitted to doing. Centre for Addiction
and Mental Health

All Canadians should have Marijuana Possession expunged from their records. All Canadians currently “in custody” for possession should be unconditionally released provided that is their only charge.

Marc Emery should not be extradited to the United States, how can we let someone face a possible life sentence in a US prison for selling seeds.

Documentaries like “CNBC's Marijuana Inc.” clearly show the positive impact on local economies when society allows marijuana out in the open. Growers start renting space, buying equipment, people take grow lessons. Retailers rent store fronts, hire and train staff, buy furniture and fixtures, advertise and start collecting tax on marijuana sales. Virtually anyone will be able to grow, allowing thousands of Canadians, no matter where they are, to start making a honest living and get off the "government payroll".

Legalization Guidelines to Maximize Employment

Retailing
Retailing of any marijuana product must take place in person, in a commercially zoned property clearly posted as such.
People must be at least 18 to purchase any marijuana product.
All sales are taxable (GST and Provincial)

Retailers that sell marijuana products should be subject to conditions that will lessen their impact on local businesses such as:
May not sell alcohol.
May not sell tobacco.
May not sell lottery tickets.
Tobacco may not be smoked/consumed on the property.

Smoking
Smoking will only be allowed in marijuana retail establishments that are clearly marked as such.

Growing
Growing for personal consumption is not taxable.
Limit of 10 live plants per adult.

Growing commercially should be subject to restrictions, to maximize employment and to ensure that large corporations don't dominate the industry.
Limit of 100 live plants at any one time.
All product must be packaged and clearly labeled with the growers name and contact info, before leaving the growers facility.

Nurseries/Greenhouses
All plants must be in vegetative stage.
All plants must be less than 12 inches tall.
There should be no limit on the number of live plants a greenhouse is able to grow/sell.

U-Grow Operations
Businesses that offer customers space to grow their own plants should be subject to the following conditions.
Property must be zoned commercial.
Must be inspected annually by qualified persons to ensure there are no fire hazards or other safety issues.

If you have not read the 6797 Proposal, please take 15 minutes to do so first. The plan is geared toward stimulating Small Town economies, creating jobs, and getting drug dealers out of residential areas NOT giving tax money to Banks or Auto companies in the hopes of maybe keeping some jobs we already have.

The 6797 Proposal recommends making some labour intensive services tax deductible to stimulate job growth on "Main Street". Services such as Maids, Restaurants, Live entertainment, Gardeners, Gym Memberships etc. would be fully tax deductible.

If you don't want something, you tax it. If you want more of something, tax it less. This is simple logic that anyone can hopefully understand. We don't want booze and cigarettes, so we tax the heck out of them. If you want more jobs, tax it less. Make hiring people more affordable by making the services outlined, tax deductible. The higher your tax rate, the more you will save on your taxes by hiring services. This will encourage a lot of high income people to eat out, see a show, hire a maid, get the car detailed and spend money where it has the most impact on jobs.

If all of a sudden 33 Million Canadians could write their restaurant meals off of their taxes, you would see thousands of restaurants open across Canada, and help ease the high commercial vacancies rates. These restaurants would have to be staffed, equipped and advertised, generating more jobs.

The proposal also recommends legalization of marijuana, a sensitive issue. The fact is 44% of Canadians have admitted to smoking marijuana, presently, virtually all marijuana transactions are done in residential neighborhoods. An estimated $85 million a year is stolen in electricity for grow operations, which is passed on to the consumer through higher bills.

Current policy is denying tax payers billions in tax revenue, subsidizing growers, exposing marijuana users to hard drugs, denying Canadians jobs and the only ones that benefit are untaxed drug dealers.

Marijuana is a multi-billion dollar business that currently does not pay any income tax, rent store fronts or charge sales tax. Without legalization, growers will continue to grow and collect welfare or workers compensation etc, since growers can't declare their income, they qualify for government assistance, and many take advantage of that.

50,000 Jobs Overnight!
There are an estimated 50,000 grow operations in Canada, all of which would have to start paying income tax, and not qualify for welfare. Inspections by the Fire Marshall would ensure that growers no longer steal electricity, and their operation poses no threat to public safety.

The 50,000 jobs is just the start, and that is based on only one job per grow operation. Entrepreneurs will start “Coffee Shops” just like out in BC. Coffee shops are labour intensive, currently Tim Hortons is biggest employer in a lot of small towns. Canadians would be able to grow marijuana anywhere in Canada under this proposal, giving them a job no matter how bad their local economy is. Some farmers have already turned to growing marijuana in Huron and Bruce County, many credit this for saving their family farm and keeping food on the table when beef and pork prices crashed.

Taxing marijuana would generate over $840,000,000 in sales taxes.
12% sales tax (5% GST, 7% Provincial) on an estimated 7 Billion Dollar Industry.

Legalizing would get 50,000 growers to start paying income tax, that could amount to approximately $1.4 Billion in Taxes, and removing 10's of thousands of people from the “welfare rolls”

(number based on the 7 Billion being taxed at a low income tax rate of 20%)

Society's current policy of stigmatizing marijuana usage, not taxing it, and subsidizing most growers with welfare or disability checks is costing society a fortune.

The divide between hard and soft drugs must be increased. Too many dealers use the opportunity to push hard drugs when someone purchases marijuana. Dealers have even started altering marijuana with cocaine to give the product more bang, and to ease people into the more profitable hard drugs like OxyContin. Currently people on government drug plans get their OxyContin and other prescriptions for about $2 a bottle. An 80mg Oxy pill goes for $40-$80/Each, turning the $2 investment into thousands of dollars, every few weeks. The government and doctors are responsible for the Oxy on the streets, if a person with a script can sell 50 pills at a time, then they are obviously over prescribed. These pills are coming from our pharmacies, prescribed by our doctors. It is about time the government instructed our police to target this epidemic that is costing hundreds of lives a year in north America.

Establishment of controlled and inspected marijuana retail sites will allow users to purchase marijuana in a safe environment, and be sure they are getting marijuana that has not been tampered with.

We would all like the power to deny certain businesses/industries the right to exist based on our own personal morals/beliefs, banks come to mind. The reality is marijuana has been around for thousands of years and won't go away any time soon. Do we really want to keep spending millions of dollars on marijuana prohibition, or would society be better served by regulating the industry, taxing it, keeping people safe and creating jobs?

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