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Originally Posted by OFKU0
It's funny, last election all I heard from people was how scary Harper was but when asked why he was scary, no one could give me an answer. .
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I will give you three.
1. Harper is a career politician. He started working for the PC party basically the second he finished law school. He has never ever had a "real job" in his life. Contrast this to Paul Martin who is a self made multi millionaire.
2. During the last election, Harper and the Conservatives were campaigning on a big US style tax cut, large increases to health care and the military. While I am all for large increases to the military and health care, I have to ask, where is all this money going to come from if you are cutting taxes? Martin has been running surplusses, but not that big of a surplus.
So where's the money going to come from?? What are you going to cut? or are you going to deficit finance to do it?? Harper would never come clean on this issue. (He did say he wanted to buy an air craft carrier though.)
I will never ever ever vote for US styled tax cuts based on borrowing money. It's absurd.
3. Making social policy an election issue. I.e. abortion, gay marriage, both of which I support. (Because I want less government intrusion in my life not more.)