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Originally Posted by Regorium
I disagree. I think there's a limit. Otherwise I could just promise to lower taxes to 0%, raise everyone's income, pay our teachers a gazillion dollars and everything. Then get into office and be like "oops, guess it wasn't possible."
But yiu are right. It's the voter's fault for being duped rather than the politicians themselves.
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But that is the public and media's job during the campaign to evaluate the promise and decide it is reasonable based on the amount of data they have. If a government campaigned on the above they hopefully would get attacked for he plan not being feasible.
I'd also evaluate whether or not the intent was met. In this case the intent is get the best value for Canadians which is still being met. Or on his 3 times larger deficit he promised deficit spending to improve infrastructure. Whether you do less and have a smaller debt or the same amount with larger debt both fit into the spirit of the campaign promise.
Wouldn't it have been great if Harper after reviewing data on the effectiveness of tough on crime legislation changed is mind.