| View Poll Results: Will you notice the GST cut? | |||
| Yes |    | 4 | 28.57% |
| No |    | 10 | 71.43% |
| Don't know/Prefer not to respond |    | 0 | 0% |
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Bright Spark
Posts: 279 
Location: Ontario, Sadly
Location: Ontario, Sadly
July 6th, 2006, 09:54 PM
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I can agree with your points on clutter and public servants. I even agree with your bad politics good policy thoughts. However, you can't forget that it's not economists who can make these changes, it's politicians and all they care about is politics. So politics will win the day every time. I will take my tax cuts on any form of tax. I would like an income tax cut too. But I'll take a GST cut anyday of the week. As you have already guessed I'm no economics major. I don't care about the timing of the tax cuts. I'll take em when I can get them.
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although I will add on edit that I think that if "we" were bound and determined to cut taxes (not an entirely bad idea in the current climate) what "we" should have done is look at that arm's length of surtaxes and and other clutter that's built up over the years and considered cleaning some of that crap up. bad politics. good policy.
and being a blue dipper I'll add that the study would include how to redeploy the public servants who babysit whatever stupid one-offs we cleared up effectively.
although I will add on edit that I think that if "we" were bound and determined to cut taxes (not an entirely bad idea in the current climate) what "we" should have done is look at that arm's length of surtaxes and and other clutter that's built up over the years and considered cleaning some of that crap up. bad politics. good policy.
and being a blue dipper I'll add that the study would include how to redeploy the public servants who babysit whatever stupid one-offs we cleared up effectively.
Bright Spark
Posts: 279
Location: Ontario, Sadly
Location: Ontario, Sadly
July 6th, 2006, 10:00 PM
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I cannot understand why the conservatives would add that half percent to the lowest income tax bracket. I guess it allowed them to keep the GST promise, and allow them to spend on the military as they promised. But, I think it just looks mean; cut a bit off most types of tax but increase the lowest bracket. The increase costs all income earners but looks like a shot at the lower income folks. Hopefully they will correct that mistake next budget.
the joke is on us they lower one tax but increase another so it almost equals out in amount spend on taxes it just politics a big ad for lowering the taxes (they want power again) but a very small print for the increase
