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Originally Posted by Pastiche
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1216778/
This assertion, from an interview the Prime Minister gave The Globe and Mail after the G8 summit in Italy, is one of the most stunning, revealing and, frankly, ignorant statements ever made by a prime minister, let alone one who keeps purporting to be an economist, despite doing so many things that economists deplore.
Think about it: The prime minister of a country is saying, “I don't believe that any taxes are good taxes.”
There is no “school,” to use Stephen Harper's word, anywhere in economics that says “no taxes are good taxes.” Not even Milton Friedman and the Chicago school think that. Nor do Mr. Harper's former mentors at the University of Calgary.
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Well, he has a Masters in Economics so I guess he IS an economist and the only thing a roomful of 15,000 economists could agree on last year was that we weren't going to have a mammoth global economic flameout!!! Otherwise, they don't agree on anything so no surprise there.
Huge overreaction by Simpson and, as Tranny said, pretty juvenile.
The arguments of Libertarians aside, all governments need to find the prudent balance between supplying the services the public needs/wants versus not strangling the economy with an excessive tax burden.
Cowperson