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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
Not raising taxes while not deficit spending would be the definition, no? By all means, attack the CPC on everything economic. It's a bit ironic to me that that is the hill they are standing on... but that is probably the best they've got.
But when the LPC say outright they will spend at will and run deficits and the NDP plans to take in $10B in extra taxes and spend it all, it's pretty hard to say the CPC isn't doing the least amount of election vote buying.
I'm curious whose vote they are buying?
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Well if anything the CPC are the only ones who are doing direct vote buying. Vote CPC and you get tax credits, or more TFSA room, which of course translates to more money in your pocket. The Liberals planning to spend on infrastructure is vote buying in that the people of the ridings that will get the infrastructure are incentivized to vote Liberal, but in that instance they enjoy a collective good (like say transit investment) rather than simply more money in their individual pocket. The NDP would likely be the same, though obviously likely to try and benefit unions more, which is kind of odd considering they're going to vote NDP no matter what.
But vote buying is something everyone does, it's just a money spending promise predicated on voting a certain way. Whether its the CPC collecting less revenue as the others, or the others offering to spend more, it's money out of the federal coffers.