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Iowa_Flames_Fan · 07-14-2009, 08:21 AM

I read this article over my morning coffee to-day. I love to hate Stephen Harper, but I think going after him for a single piece of lofty supply-side rhetoric is a little goofy. Of course he doesn't really think that taxes are always bad in every situation. If he did, he would be cutting spending to the military and other programs and slashing the income tax rate would be his first priority. It's just rhetoric. And that's part of politics--a game that I happen to think Harper is not very good at--but it's silly to fault him for trying to play it.

07-14-2009, 08:21 AM	#6
Iowa_Flames_Fan Referee Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Over the hill Exp:	I read this article over my morning coffee to-day. I love to hate Stephen Harper, but I think going after him for a single piece of lofty supply-side rhetoric is a little goofy. Of course he doesn't really think that taxes are always bad in every situation. If he did, he would be cutting spending to the military and other programs and slashing the income tax rate would be his first priority. It's just rhetoric. And that's part of politics--a game that I happen to think Harper is not very good at--but it's silly to fault him for trying to play it.