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Originally Posted by starseed
I prefer Poillievre's math. Carney said he was going to cut 1% to the lowest tax bracket at a cost of $22B.
However, Poillievre has managed to find a way to make the cut 2.5x bigger for that bracket, but only costing $8B more.
Carney is way too cautious with his numbers. We need a leader who can be bolder and more optimistic about how much things are going to cost us, for a change.
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The Conservative cut is phased in over several years (even though it wasn’t announced that way), which reduces the total cost over the period. But once fully implemented, it does cost 2.5x what the Liberal plan does.
I suspect once they realized they were going to have to actually release a costed platform that they panicked when they realized how much debt that was adding, so they changed it to a phased in cut so the total prepared by the PBO doesn’t look as bad.