Promises... Shmomises....

globeandmail.com : PM looks to sweeten tax plan

Before any Tory trolls get all self-righteous and suggest that I am against tax-relief... hear me out.

I just wanted to raise the point that was discussed during the election campaign, that the CPC tax plan would cost Canadians more in the long run than the existing Liberal plan.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has calculated that the vast majority of individuals or families with children six years or older will pay more in taxes if the GST is dropped by one point and the income tax reductions, announced in the 2005 mini-budget, are withdrawn.

“Virtually every Canadian taxpayer with an income between $10,000 and $85,000 without young children will pay more tax in 2006 if the Harper government rescinds the 2005 income tax measures,” CTF executive director John Williamson said.

“In fact, even two-earner families with a combined income of $100,000 can expect to pay more tax overall. This is true even with a one-point reduction to the GST and the introduction of the various targeted tax credits.”

This article proves it, and goes on to say that even the Harperites have corrected their lying ways... admitting that their plan as promised in the Campaign would leave Canadians with less cash in their pockets than the Liberal plan.

The Tories had pledged to repeal Liberal income-tax breaks to fund a promise to cut the goods and services tax by one percentage point this year, but the government remains concerned it will stand accused of hiking taxes.

“On the income-tax side there is a problem because if the Liberal-initiated income taxes are repealed and only the GST is cut, then what [Prime Minister] Stephen Harper has been saying about Canadians being better off is not true and that circle must be squared before budget day,” a source familiar with deliberations said.

Funny! Isn't that what we Liberal bloggers said to our ReformaTory counterparts?

Harpercrites!

A.L.

Conservatives hate the f**king Liberals...? No WAY!

TheStar.com - Emerson frustrated, ex-aide says

My favourite lines:

Jay Epworth, Emerson's legislative assistant when he was industry minister in the Paul Martin government, said Emerson recently told him he has been shocked by the Harper government's fierce adversarial approach.

"Behind closed doors, the Conservatives are worse partisans than the Liberals ever were," Emerson said, according to notes Epworth wrote after his conversation with the minister.

"They hate the f---ing Liberals and they're doing everything they can to screw them," he quoted Emerson as saying.

Emerson had been explaining that the partisan nature of politics is "just something he was not able to really wrap his head around," recalled Epworth, who is now the legislative assistant to Opposition Leader Bill Graham.

NICE!

A.Liberal

1-2-3-4....I Declare a Civil War!

globeandmail.com : Klein loyalists enraged by party vote

Did they learn nothing from the federal Liberal Party's "Hindenburg-esque" fall not 3 months ago?

If this sniping and in-fighting keeps up, there really could be a regime change in Alberta.

Man would that be great.

It will be a snowy day in July before that happens.... Luckily this is one of the provinces where snow in July is not completely out of the question.

A.L.