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Originally posted by james t kirk
They aren't perfect, but they are far better than any of their predesesors.
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If by any of their predecessors you mean Mulrooney, you might have a point...but otherwise that is a pretty big claim you can't substantiate.
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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.
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You don't notice the taxes because they are the order-in-council kind, or they are not consumer taxes and therefor you don't notice them directly.
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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?
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Would you stop bringing up Mulroney? He is irrelevant. His corruption does not justify theirs, nor does his relatively worse actions make theirs any more acceptable.
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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.
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Circumstance has been a hell of alot of it, Martin and the liberals are just great at taking credit for it. Regardless, I agree that he hasn't done that bad a job ensuring that we can benefit from circumstance, but I still think that Alberta would do better if we were less tied into the federal government...even if it wasn't complete seperation and involved a huge decrease in our federal taxes.