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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
So if Layton had a Master's in Economics, you'd prefer him over Harper?
What if Duceppe had a Doctorate?
What a silly fulcrum point for an argument. Harper isn't sitting in an ivory economics tower single handedly hatching out the budget to show the party once he's finished dotting every I and crossing every T. It's a tad more complicated than that.
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Well, Harper does have a Master's, so it would take a Doctorate to trump him...
In all seriousness though... corporate tax cuts are a stimulus plan. Anything past that is well advised to wait until Obama releases his plan for reasons that other posters have described. Wheeling up a dumptruck full of money to GM, Ford and Chrysler will do nothing if the US doesn't save them. It also doesn't help that the CAW refuses to negotiate. Even that is beside the point right now.
Point is, in sticky economic times, the people in charge can't be impulsive and reckless. Often in these times, certain industries die out or lose predominance to be replaced by something else. Maybe the stimulus package should be used to build a Refinery or two in Ontario and use laid off factory workers to staff it? Its still a month or two early to know for sure. Thing is, taxes should not go up in Canada, for anyone... personal or corporate. This is deficit time, but that deficit spending still needs to be responsible. I have zero faith the Layton/Duceppe/Liberal of the Week Cabal featuring the Politburo Council of Manley, Martin, Romanow and McKenna can do that effectively.