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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
They propose to pay for their proposals through 3 main methods:
- Introduction of carbon cap and trade (which they have now backed off from as unfeasible in the near term due to constitutional problems)
- Increasing corporate tax rates (which just about every economist in the country has indicated will not increase tax revenues)
- Eliminating 'oil sands subsidies' (which are not subsidies at all just changes in accounting practises allowing longer amortization)
Even the CBC has shredded the NDP platform as poorly thought out. Basically the NDP platform is filled with promises for everyone with no explanation of how we will pay for them.
But we all know how we will pay for them... huge debts followed by huge taxes and decades of ######ed economic growth. That's the NDP platform in a nutshell.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cana...-platform.html |
By well laid out I meant it had more detail than the other parties and was better presented (in my opinion) - not that they were good ideas. The Conservative and Liberal platforms are full of buzzwords and really vague statements without really saying a whole lot. I agree the NDP platform would probably be a disaster economically, and I definitely have no intention of voting for them myself.