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Originally Posted by rubecube
FTR, I'm generally of the opinion that personal income tax increases and sales taxes are better revenue streams than corporate tax raises for many of the reasons you've mentioned, but I also realize that we're only four months into a new government and there's a chance that I could be wrong. To actually claim that there's proof that NDP are making things worse borders on absurdity.
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Come on rubecube, do you really think its absurd to suggest that increasing spending more than increasing revenue is a dumb move when we were already spending too much and collecting too little?
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Originally Posted by rubecube
But that's not really the point because CPC supporters are maintaining that this current four-month span and the projected future losses are indicative of failed NDP economic policies, but that the current state of the federal economy is not indicative of failed CPC policies.
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Who? Where? I'll smack them myself based on the above. And don't try to package "they're making it worse" in with "it was already bad".
FTR, on the surface I am of the belief that the current state of the federal economy is not indicative of failed CPC policies. I think the CPC have a pretty good track record relative to the economic environment. We were on pace for a balanced budget and things were looking good until this recent recession. But I'm open to debate that. What failed policies resulted in this?
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Originally Posted by rubecube
The similarities between the policies should be irrelevant when judging the results.
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Correlation is not causation. To ignore the policies and only judge the results is a poor approach.
I've given some NDP policies and justified why I think they're directionally bad. I'm open to debate if they're bad. Let's stack them up against some CPC policies and debate why they are bad. Then someone like myself can maybe understand "hmm good point, I am holding a double standard."