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... and nobody has come to this board to complain about it. 
Amazing!
Where are the Reform/Conservative supporters and card carrying members?
Have you also converted to the Liberals?
Sending $10 a month to Trudeau instead of Harper? Did you get your Christmas card?
"the 100 billion the party has promised to add to the federal debt."
I think the word "promised" may not be accurate in that context!
"The Liberals have a history of identifying investments that work as a tax deferral or shelter and shutting them down."
You are correct.
When in power, the Liberals do regularly kill or modify tax expenditures created by Conservatives for the exclusive benefit of the rich and high income earners.
Is that a bad thing?
Is there something wrong for guys making lots of money paying taxes so the rest of the population does not have to pay for them?
It made a lot of sense to me for the government to increase income tax rate on those making more than $250,000 a year so many other Canadians can benefit from a lower rate.
It made sense to me to see the TFSA annual limit return to the previous level of $5,500 instead of the $10,000 election year increase given to the rich by Harper. Yes, Mary and I will personally hurt by the change as we can afford to put $10,000 each a year in TFSA. But. looking at the good of the country, most Canadians cannot afford to save $5,500 a year in TFSA, let alone $10,000.
There is something called "social justice" where those better off pay for those not so well off. That is something Reform/Conservatives supporters never understood.
"The Conservative brand is fiscally responsible programs."
That is not reality.
Please add up how much the Conservatives borrowed under Harper in their first five years in office: much more than budgeted by the current government.
Ok - so you have an excuse for them - recession. So what. By 2011 we were out of the recession for years and the Conservatives kept having budget deficits.
We also had a recession last year. Revenues are way down now and the next many years with the price of oil dropping by more than 60%. The same for many natural resources: copper, lead, zinc, etc...
A look at the Conservative record under Harper
2008-09 deficit -5.8B adjusted -6.48B (beginning of the recession)
2009-10 deficit -55.6B adjusted -61.27B
2010-11 deficit -33.4B adjusted -36.12B (2008-2009 recession was over by then)
2011-12 deficit -26.3B adjusted -27.82B
2012-13 deficit -18.4B adjusted -18.91B (still in deficit long after the recession was over)
2013-14 deficit -5.2B adjusted -5.26B
Add them up if your calculator can go that high!
You will notice that the Conservatives under Harper had the bad habit of underestimating the annual deficit year after year. The actual numbers at the end of the year always came in larger than expected.
They sure make the Liberals look good when you look at the Conservative record.
Nobody really cares about Clinton and Bush.... that is American history. We are in Canada and yes we had a recession early last year under the Harper government with very little job creating in the last year of their mandate (2015).
KISS
Harper has a worse record of annual deficits even when the recession was long gone than currently projected by the current Liberal government.for the next four years of investing in our economy infrastructure at twice the rate of the Harper government while lowering income taxes on middle income Canadians. That one and half percent tax rate reduction has already gone into effect two months ago. And all that while protecting your rights to income splitting as a senior.
Does it get any better than that?.
"Experts are saying.... "
Many of the same experts who - in a very large majority - complimented the federal government for going into a large deficit this year while interest rates are low.
Now is the time to borrow at low rates for the long term to build assets that will last decades and increase Canadian productivity.
Harper has clearly demonstrated that having an annual deficit year after year and borrowing billions of dollars to lower corporate tax did NOT create all those jobs he promised. In fact the employment record of the last ten years is dismal when you look at the job creation by large businesses in Canada. Most jobs were created by small businesses.
Small business not happy, Liberals keeping corporate tax rate at 11%. Should go a long way creating jobs.
The government also backed away from plans to reduce the small business corporate tax rate, a move that earned it the wrath of a leading small business advocacy group.
“It’s hard to see this as anything other than a broken promise or a lie,” said Dan Kelly, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
Another broken promise.
Don't like it? Move. See how simple that is. Trump needs more support anyhow. It seems he believes women who have abortions should be punished. Of course he believes a lot of things.
@pierrelebel wrote:... and nobody has come to this board to complain about it.
Amazing!
Where are the Reform/Conservative supporters and card carrying members?
I hear enough about it in Alberta...there's no need to come to the boards to complain about it.
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