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Originally Posted by calculoso
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That is the most amazing audio clip I have ever heard.
In the line "Politicians are scared of the word TAX and ____ think Canadians are stupid" ... if I am thinking the personal pronoun "I", I hear "I". But if I am thinking of the pronoun "THEY", I hear "THEY".
But that distinction is moot considering that she later says that she agrees with the assessment.
This is a common concern about May: "Mouth in overdrive, brain in neutral".
I listened to the original source from TVO and I know what she is getting at. The knee-jerk reaction to any tax change, be it Dion's "Green Shift" or the Green Party's own "Eco-tax" is that a "a tax is a tax is a tax and therefore evil". Considering that the Green Party platform includes cutting personal income taxes even more than Dion's "Green Shift" she is frustrated that people won't consider this as a "tax change" but cynically see this as a means to raise taxes. I understand her point, but she let her frustration boil over, while being recorded, on a campaign trail. I'm surprised her comment is only being reported in the back pages of the "National Post".