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Originally Posted by Locke
Raising some taxes, usage fees, okay, but just jacking up all taxes while spending indiscriminately while the economy lies in tattered ruins is just throwing kerosene into the blazing inferno.
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Taxes had to go up. Who was going to raise them?... WR? PCAA? Whatever mutant party Jason Kenney envisions? Yes, the timing isn't optimal but it was either do this needed thing now when it's possible but not optimal or try to wait until it's optimal but potentially not possible.
Spending has to come down as well (and like raising taxes right now is not the optimal time to do that) but to be frank I have no more faith in any other party then I do in the NDP to do that at the optimal time (that being when the economy has recovered).
Politicians generally make terrible economists.