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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Why play a shell game with the funding for health care ect? Either it gets paid for at the provincial level, or it gets paid for at the federal level. At the end of the day its still paid for by the taxpayers. Who said anything about the GST? But since your bring it up, I remember Chretien campaigned on axing that tax. What happened there?
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The health care cuts were accompanied by greater provincial autonomy. That means the provinces were given increased flexiblity to eliminate waste. Of course spendings cuts hurt, but the point is that the Liberals aren't tax-and-spend bogeymen that can be lumped in with the NDP as killer_carlson did. Their recent record is of lower spending than the conservatives.
I brought up the GST cut because it falls into fiscal responsibility. And frankly, it's better to promise to do something stupid and then not do it than to promise to do something stupid and actually follow through, even though it's stupid.