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Originally Posted by Frequitude
NStop being obtuse. It makes it difficult to converse or debate with you. Which is a shame because its a good opportunity to have these sorts of debates in here with people like yourself who are on the opposite side of the table as me.
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Is he being obtuse or just pointing out that there is a disproportionate amount of hysteria directed at policies that are of debatable impact compared to policies that have had an observed negative effect? Sure, we can discuss both, but again much of the rhetoric seems partisan at its root and not actually concerned with policy.
Personally I don't think increasing the tax rate is a good idea, but rather implementing a sales tax or hiking personal income taxes would be a better choice, if you're trying to address the historical dependence on oil revenue to pay for the budget. However, this being a political decision, who do you think the NDP is going to want to anger: the people who voted for them, or their political opponents?
To put it bluntly, most of you aren't the target audience for these changes, just like rube isn't the target of Harper's "rah rah law'n'order!" agenda: the NDP doesn't care what you think. I know that after decades of pandering to the affluent insiders, it's tough to be on the outside looking in, but crying and whining about it just makes it easy for them to ignore your concerns as the envy that it all too convincingly appears to be.