NDP leadership race
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If you are interested in how they will do that you should read their platforms.........
Tom Mulcair said that as a campaign tactic. Their research probably told them the NDP are seen as big debt spenders so they decided to attack that perception. Obviously it didn't work.
Okay here's Caron's Platform to pay for his vision........
In restructuring our economy, we are undertaking an enormously ambitious and essential project for the future of our country. Thus, it may be necessary to incur a deficit.
We have identified a number of sources of funding to pay for the necessary expenditures, including a robust carbon tax, which will be implemented across the country over a period of 10 years. The costs of retraining, job matching and interim support programs will be paid for through an increase in the corporate tax rate (my plan to overhaul Canada’s tax system already calls for the increase of the corporate tax rate from 15% to 19% - one percentage point of which will be invested directly into the Workers First transition). As previously noted, the Basic Income supplement will also be paid for through the restructuring of our tax system.
Finally, as a further source of funds for this crucial transition, we propose to increase the inflation target from its current level of 2% to 4%. This move is expected to raise gross domestic income by an additional $50 billion per year.
all of it.....
Workers First - Guy Caron for NDP Leader
In restructuring our economy, we are undertaking an enormously ambitious and essential project for the future of our country. Thus, it may be necessary to incur a deficit.
We have identified a number of sources of funding to pay for the necessary expenditures, including a robust carbon tax, which will be implemented across the country over a period of 10 years. The costs of retraining, job matching and interim support programs will be paid for through an increase in the corporate tax rate (my plan to overhaul Canada’s tax system already calls for the increase of the corporate tax rate from 15% to 19% - one percentage point of which will be invested directly into the Workers First transition). As previously noted, the Basic Income supplement will also be paid for through the restructuring of our tax system.
Finally, as a further source of funds for this crucial transition, we propose to increase the inflation target from its current level of 2% to 4%. This move is expected to raise gross domestic income by an additional $50 billion per year.
all of it.....
Workers First - Guy Caron for NDP Leader
There just so hopeless the NDP. They're like the Democrat Party in the States.. cubed. Completely immersed in political correctness, victim ideology, multiculturalism, white man's guilt, feminism, homosexuality, culture of death, AGW pseudoscience. I mean that has completely submerged the old nationalist and populist economic policies that was their one redeeming grace. They have no prospects but to wander the political wilderness.. like the Dems.. forever.
I was responding to the lead post, about the utter futility and naivity of the NDP in its current form.
Ask them.
Hand them a Kleenex while you're at it.
btw....the mods don't enforce the rules....only for some.