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Old 04-04-2011, 02:15 PM   #883
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Originally Posted by Cowboy89 View Post
I'm with you there. The beauty of tax credits is that should you not need to encourage or discourage certain activities in the future, you just pull the credit or incentive, no one needs to be let go and paid severance or shuffled into another government department. Plus when programs are created there's a whole new level of bureaucracy that has to get fed an increasing amount of money every year. The last thing Canada needs is more unionized 9-5 timerenters with defined benefit pension plans who expect raises above the annual CPI regardless of output.

Exactly. Ignatieff saying it will cost 1 billion dollars to implement is all well and good. What happens twenty years down the road when the program costs 30-40 billion dollars a year to operate.
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