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We are going to go $22 billion into debt over five years just to FINANCE TAX CUTS. We are borrowing money to lower taxes.
For example, my family can now afford one extra double latte at Starbucks per week (not that I would), financed by the government BORROWING MONEY to give me a tax break.
Here is the scary part – tax cuts are structural. What this means is, that the tax cuts are there when the infrastructure programs dry up. Tax cuts are there unless we have a tax increase. So in five years, if the economy is back to where it was five months ago, we will around what, 6-7 billion a year LESS to spend on programs each year.
To balance the budget with these tax cuts, yeah you got it, health, social spending, education, etc will be CUT. This is a ticking time bomb.
Only conservatives would cut taxes with borrowed money. Republicans have been doing it for years. Do we need a Liberal government to balance the bloody books again?
Another issue I have is a home renovation credit? What is this, Grant Devine’s Saskatchewan? You are going to give me money to put a deck on my house? Wow.
Finally, the footnote appears to be a cap on wage increases for federal employees. Why not stick with the collective agreement you signed in good faith and not, NOT, NOT cut taxes?
Once again, I am left thinking of the old adage “Conservative’s cannot count.” Where is Preston Manning when you need him?
Way to sabotage my childern’s future, Ottawa!
Hello folks,
I have been picking away at this site, updating the design, tightening it up, combining my personal url (wayemason.com) with my other fun url (halifaxpolitics.ca), and generally playing with design and interface again. My plan is now that it is all tooled up to actually start posting articles, thoughts and ideas again, though who knows if I will really do that!
Blogging is so out of style now I feel like I would be a real rebel to start writing here again.
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In part of his column in the National Post, John Ivison wrote:
Mr. Harper reacted like the boy who pokes the dog with a stick and then complains about being bitten. “The Opposition is working on an agreement in back corridors to reverse the result of the last election, without the consent of voters…. They want to put in place as prime minister someone [Stephane Dion] who was rejected by the voters of Canada only six weeks ago.”Mr. Harper has only himself to blame for his dilemma. It seems highly unlikely that we would be in this sorry state had his hubris not pushed him to try to beggar the opposition parties by cutting their public subsidy.
The Liberals say that their visceral reaction has nothing to do with political funding issue and that the primary concern is the lack of stimulus in the fiscal update that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty brought down this week. “[Mr. Harper] said in Peru that it’s time for major fiscal stimulus but while he speaks like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he acts like Calvin Coolidge,” said Liberal MP John McCallum.
Full article here: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada … 008301&p=1
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