Please explain how Harper will hurt the economy but Dion is the answer to our problems.
I would especially be interested to learn how the Green Shift (a tax on everything) will help those on fixed incomes, and industry in general.
In addition, you could explain how Dion will increase new spending at well over ten times the Tory commitment.....yet still improve our economy.
Is he Dion? Or Merlin the Magician?
1.) I don't think Dion is competant, In that i don't trust him for his lax views on "citizenship of convenience". I will not vote for him and hope no one else does.
2.) That said, I would like to address the points you have brought up.
Green Shift: True cost economics if done right, does not help one on fixed incomes in the short term, nor does it harm them.
Marketing 101, companies cannot simply "Raise the prices" to deal with a new tax if the option to reduce it through cost saving means exist. Competition means if you don't, someone else will. In the current market clime, this is the ideal time to force a green shift. If you are the more expensive brand of Ketchup in a time when people are counting every penny, you will fail.
The idea of the green shift is to force people to pay for what they use of our national resources (like clean air and water) based on what they use rather than forcing everyone to pay equally, regardless of behaviour.
The system in place currently for dealing with air and water pollution is communism. It crushes the incentive to be productive or innovate in exactly the same way.
Allowing the free market to enter the arena will also stimulate the economy in areas Canada has strengths in over foreign companies, green technologies. That means more jobs, less unemployment.
All of that results in stronger Industry, and thus either lower prices or better quality for consumers (such as those on fixed incomes), higher quality and durability is in the long run the same as a lower price.
- Increasing Spending
Spending is never a problem. Without spending, the economy would die. Government spending is key to our economy.
This isn't new. The problem is never government spending. Its the return on investment of that spending.
Quite frankly Im worried at how much the economy might shrink under harpers lower spending.
How much is taxed, how much is spent, none of that matters.
What matters is how much more real income does a citizen have? I would rather be taxed at 90% and make 200,000 a year, then be taxed 10% at 15,000 a year.
I would rather Dion spend a hundred billion dollars and make 150 billion, then Harper save 100 billion and shrink the economy by 150 billion.
The net result is what matters.
I hope that answers your questions.