Both the liberal-left-luvin’ state-owned CBC and liberalvision CTV leads off the (free!) ad campaign with advance support of the Liberal Party’s (well, Stephane Dion’s) new increased taxes to be announced tomorrow, by using totally misleading headlines. Both headlines refer only to “tax cuts”.
Set that pop culture tone up just right, libs!
CBC: “Liberal’s carbon plan to offer $15.5 billion in tax cuts”
CTV: “Dion’s ‘green shift’ to reduce taxes by $11 billion”
Neither headline mentions that the plan calls for raising taxes by at least that amount (although of course the plan is so insane that nobody even knows how to calculate how much. exactly, to raise taxes, so the plan calls for raising taxes by about $15 BILLION…). The CTV article didn’t even but barely mention raising taxes at all. This is like a Liberal Party public relations department dream come true.
CBC.ca
CTV.ca
The liberals’ Globe and Mail cites “sources” in their excited online front page indicating that “tax cuts” will be in the order of “10%”.
Apparently no “sources” were available citing “total BS”.
EXTRA:
Vancouver Sun article this morning about latest poll: “Most oppose carbon tax”. Oops.
VICTORIA—A majority of British Columbians oppose the B.C. Liberal government’s carbon tax, a new poll reveals.
Ipsos Reid has found that 59 per cent of those polled are against the new tax—set to begin July 1 with a 2.4-cent-per-litre increase in the price of gasoline—with just under half of the respondents saying they oppose it “strongly.” …
From my read of the Liberals’ new “carbon shift” (or what I call the “carbon shift a-ha-ha-ha-ha”) plan, it appears the Liberals’ (well, Dion’s) plan will demand a monumentally huge new government department and secretariat complete with an enormous new bureaucracy simply to manage the new tax department. Think the $2 BILLION long gun registry (originally budgeted at $2 MILLION), and then multiply it by 80 or 100.
Best line of the day goes to Conservative MP Jason Kenney, who said if the Liberals succeed with their carbon tax plan, Canadians are going to be “shift out of luck.”
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