I read through the Liberal plan and will admit that some of it looks interesting. I don't like the loan forgiveness for student debt as it rewards and encourages debt. The foreign credentials program is a lot more complicated than they are making it seem. I don't like the proposed personal tax increases or the corporate tax increases. Increasing the taxes paid by the higher income earners is punitive towards single income families and encourages dual income families. (I suppose his two year pre school helps out there as well) I also don't understand why they feel the need to bump taxes on everything but small businesses, why are large companies so bad? The elimination of private school funding seems aggressive, I am not sure what the issue is with private schools, but if a parent decides to send their child to a private school why shouldn't they be able to have their tax dollars support it? Why is a Catholic education acceptable but a Muslim education a waste of tax payers dollars? What about sports schools that build the class schedule around athletic events, are those bad too?
I don't like their plans to switch elections to a single transferable vote. I think that is an important enough issue that it should be determined via a referendum rather than party platform. There are lots of good ideas for reforming the electoral process but I think the issues are complicated enough to demand a full debate and referendum before a major part of our democracy is altered.
Sorry that the above is a bit scattered, I wrote it while reading the platform.
Slava, as a courtesy, would you consider picking out the actual portions of the WRA platform that you don't like for discussion?
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