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Originally posted by MrSmashy
If you think that the liberal party is fiscally responsible, you are either so ignorant of what has happened that you shouldn't even be posting here, or you are a straightfaced liar. I am not trying to be rude -even if i am being- but there is no other way to put it. I don't want to list off all the financial scandals and publically reported waste that this government has been involved in (for there is a limit to these posts) but suffice to say I really can't understand how you could possibly refer to them as fiscally responsible.
Martin's budget surpluses came because taxes were raised through orders-in-council and good economic luck. The first few 'surpluses' were budgetary smoke and mirrors and they - luckily for him - worked out after a while. I will give them some credit for doing some stuff better (not that it was hard given their predecessors) but to ignore everything that has gone wrong is rediculous.
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They aren't perfect, but they are far better than any of their predesesors.
We must live in a different country, because under Paul Martin, my income taxes have been cut twice. The ony tax increases i have suffered of late have been property taxes.
Sure there has been waste - the HRDC loosing a billion dollars, the gun registry programme costing another billion, but it pales in comparison to Mulroney and his corrupt conservative blow boys. That bastard was running 50 billion dollar deficits, and exactly where did that money go?
Lastly, I would respectfully point out that luck has nothing to do with a strong economy my friend. The strongest economy amoung all G-7 nations does not come without a sound fiscal policy. I am quite sure that the boys in Calgary love Martin just like the boys in Bay Street, and would gladly have him in big chair before Stephen Harper.