Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Green Shift/Debate Issues

It's already been heavily discussed, but the Liberal Green Shift plan is now being roasted by senior Ontario Liberals as well (including the Ontario Finance Minister). Not surprisingly, he doesn't consider it to be good form to radically change the tax burden in the country at a time of economic instability (which seems to make alot of sense).

Harper also wants a full hour of the debate focusing on the economy. Layton has immediately agreed. That puts Dion in a tough spot - should he disagree, he looks like he either doesn't care about the biggest issue in the election, or he is worried about discussing it for that length. If he does agree, he gets an hour with his weakest (and Harper's strongest) issue. Big trouble for him, and strong move by Harper.

And I can't believe the Liberals are actually running out the whole "plagiarism" card when it comes to a speech Harper gave 5 years ago. Even when the Conservatives were blasting the Liberals over issues like the sponsorship scandal, it was a) current, and b) completely relevant. This is neither, and for the Liberals to be parading it like a big, scary, nasty find is simply amusing.

And finally, a big shout out to all you out there reading this. I had no idea so many of you were out there. Thanks for the readership, and I'll be trying to keep this a bit more up to date than I have in past months.

2 comments:

Abe said...

Interesting how we change the conotation when we call it "the tax burden".

Lawyer Kid said...

I find that tax is burdensome on my income, yeah.

I also find that more government is generally a lot more burdensome as well.