I’m glad I officially coined the term “Liberal Party Too” some years ago as the “new” Conservative Party was being formed. It was used by me informally as a cautionary tale. I kept it and have used it sparingly in the past couple of years. Today I will officially add it to my web site’s Lexicon.
As I wrote yesterday while listening to the speech by “conservative” Conservative Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, I heard there was supposed to be a conservative budget, but I never did hear one. Still haven’t.
– So here’s yesterday’s blog entry about the budget.
– Here’s a feature-length pre-budget blog entry from last week. (The warning signs really started here).
And here’s a list of just SOME of the conservative-tolerant columnists/writers/thinkers who agree with me (unwittingly or not):
– John Williamson, Canadian Taxpayers Federation
– Niels Veldhuis and Jason Clemens, The Fraser Institute
– Andrew Coyne, National Post
– Greg Weston, Ottawa Sun
– Tom Brodbeck, Winnipeg Sun
– Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun
– Gerry Nicholls, National Citizens Coalition (Gerry’s blog)
– and several more
– Also, the National Citizens Coalition’s Gerry Nicholls who wrote in his news release:
NCC Says Budget has Too Much Spending; Not Enough Tax Cuts
(Toronto March 19) Today’s federal budget contained too much spending and not enough tax cuts, says the National Citizens Coalition.
“With such a huge surplus at its disposal the Conservative government could have done more in terms of offering over-taxed Canadians some meaningful relief,” says NCC vice president Gerry Nicholls. “Instead of offering relief, the government chose to spend.”
Nicholls says he had hoped the government would do more to chop its spending.
“For years, the government has been spending more than it should and taxing more than it should,” says Nicholls. “It’s too bad the government didn’t move to reverse that trend. There was some targeted tax relief, but not the broad tax cuts Canada needs.”
Nicholls says Canada needs across the board tax cuts both for individuals and for businesses.
“If Canada is going to compete in the world markets and if we are going to attract and retain talented people, we need to cut tax rates in this country.”
Nicholls says it’s wrong to dole out billions of tax dollars to the provinces to address the so-called “fiscal imbalance.”
“The real fiscal imbalance,” says Nicholls “is the one taxpayers see in their wallets thanks to high taxes.”
Closely related criticism from conservative-tolerant folks:
– Lorne Gunter, National Post
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