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So? Just because they're costed out (to a deficit) doesn't mean that it's not massive spending.
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Huh? Are you purposely just talking in circles? Clearly the Conservatives have the lowest spending platform of all the parties. Full Stop.
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8.2B actually... and they did say how they are going to pay for it. You may not like how they intend to pay for it but that doesn't mean that they didn't cost it out. Which is more then Harpers done on what few non-budget promises (that don't take effect until 2015/16... maybe) that he's released. Surprise surprise... the former President and CEO of a Right-Wing think tank's opinion comes out on the side of the right-wing party. He didn't "shred" any credibility unless you were already predisposed to disbelieve it to begin with. I could just as easily point towards the opinions of Jim Stanford or other economists of his ilk regarding corporate taxes but they're no more credible then Mintz.
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You've just spent three pages alleging that the Conservatives are every bit as left wing as the Liberals, and now you allege they only get the support of a very accomplished and recognized economist because they are right wing? Got it.
I mean, besides the fact every nation in the world outside the USA is lowering corporate taxes and seeing corporate tax revenues increase (exactly as economists like Mintz predict), that Canada is a special place and the Liberals plan will work against the rest of the world. They do control gravity, after all.
None of this changes reality; the Liberals are promising much more in spending than the Conservatives, they are promising to balance the budget much later than the Conservatives, and their projected financing of their new spending projects through increasing corporate taxes is dubious at best.