[OnTheIce]

Is It Dalton Ignatieff or Michael McGuinty?

Working a ton of hours but just couldn't resist addressing Iggy's latest "thoughts", which were a result of a rainy summer season. It appears Iggy has taken a page out of Dalton McGuinty's liar liar pants on fire strategy of stating something he himself knows to be untrue. It appears Iggy is boasting that if elected he will get rid of the $50 billion deficit without raising taxes. So without raising taxes that would mean one of a few things:


1. Iggy plans on massive spending cuts. But where to cut? Health care.? Maybe. Put our healthcare system through the Chretien/Martin debacle all over again. Cut funding to the arts? Oops, better avoid that one, Remember the last election Iggy? I know. Let's change the rules for EI eligibility. That could bring in over $54 billion over the years. And you could save money by cancelling that EI reform blue ribbon panel.

2. Increases in government revenues. This might be a tough one without those tax increases Iggy just promised to avoid. I suppose he might insist on balancing the budget with increased revenues, but that would be the exact opposite of what Kevin Page and TD economist and uber-Liberal Don Drummond said could happen.

3. He could save millions by eliminating the vote subsidy thingy. Oops, never mind. Just remembered that whole coalition thing that supposedly was a result of those subsidies being eliminated.

4. Phone his BFF, Barak Obama, and ask if he might be willing to add another $50 billion onto that gazzilion U.S. deficit.

5. Come up with Adscam 2, the sequel. Only this time figure out how to get the advertising agencies to give the government money for nothing.

6. Hold $500 dinners 365 days a year, with all proceeds going to the federal treasury.

7. Have John McCallum do a series of Chevrolet commercials, increasing the sales of GM cars and making it more likely to recoup that auto-bailout money.

8. Appoint Bob Rae finance minister. Iggy said he wouldn't raise taxes. He never said Bob Rae wouldn't.

9. Increase lobster sales to China, something the Conservative government has disappointingly overlooked as a massive revenue generator.

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[ASLplease]

I just don't see how Iggy is going to pull it off unless he implements Dion's Green Shit Plan

[Bruce_the_vii]

I estimate it can be done with getting people working. There are away more people working in Alberta than the rest of the country because of the good economy of the last several years. If Canada was allowed to approach Alberta’s levels of employment the tax base would go up. That is instead of meeting our labour needs by raising immigration get more Canadians back in the labour force.

I calculate that if immigration were cut in half; to a background level of family, refugees and corporate nominees( say 125,000 a year) and growth was 3% next year while 3.5% after that in six years federal revenues would rise $40.9 billion without additional costs of more people. So there’s $40.9 billion of the $50.5 billion. Some of the current deficit is cyclical and this would disappear with the recovery.

[kenmore]

Typical tory rhetoric there OnTheIce and pure bullshit. The libs have a good plan for the economy, the employment situation, housing, education and the environment.
You might want to read their platform before you make the usual tory lies up.

[gigs]

kenmore wrote:

Typical tory rhetoric there OnTheIce and pure bullshit. The libs have a good plan for the economy, the employment situation, housing, education and the environment.
You might want to read their platform before you make the usual tory lies up.

Really? How did you manage to find their platform? Is it written in one of Iggy's books?

Secret code I imagine, maybe it's buried under the floor boards in his house in Provence.

[kenmore]

I happen to be a card carrying Liberal who has been involved with the party since I was old enough to vote. I attend all the local meetings and have been to several in Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver. I will be attending this dinner..... We are delighted to confirm the details of the first annual Liberal Tribute Dinner on Thursday October 1st. The purpose of this event is for Liberals to renew our connections, commemorate past successes, build-up the party war-chest and celebrate future victory.

Please join our leader Michael Ignatieff in welcoming our former leader and Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Jean Chrétien, as the guest of honour. Mr. Chrétien will no doubt bring a timely and lively message for all Liberals as our caucus returns to Parliament to hold the Harper government to account. The ticket prices are: $1,100 for VIP reception & dinner and $500 for dinner only. I am proud enough to pay $1,100 for the evening. I am also a personal friend of Honourable Peter Milliken, M.P. and Speaker of the House of Commons. So I have a good idea of what their platform is.

[dino_bobba_renno]

I would imagine he'll have to contemplate cutting funding to the arts. After all wouldn't it make more sense to make cuts there than some other more important area?

I wonder if the media will cover that in the same manner as they did the Conservatives proposal to make cuts to the exact same funding?

[Canadian_Mind]

kenmore wrote:

I happen to be a card carrying Liberal who has been involved with the party since I was old enough to vote. I attend all the local meetings and have been to several in Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver. I will be attending this dinner..... We are delighted to confirm the details of the first annual Liberal Tribute Dinner on Thursday October 1st. The purpose of this event is for Liberals to renew our connections, commemorate past successes, build-up the party war-chest and celebrate future victory.

Please join our leader Michael Ignatieff in welcoming our former leader and Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Jean Chrétien, as the guest of honour. Mr. Chrétien will no doubt bring a timely and lively message for all Liberals as our caucus returns to Parliament to hold the Harper government to account. The ticket prices are: $1,100 for VIP reception & dinner and $500 for dinner only. I am proud enough to pay $1,100 for the evening. I am also a personal friend of Honourable Peter Milliken, M.P. and Speaker of the House of Commons. So I have a good idea of what their platform is.

So you sying I have to be a card carrying liberal in order to have the privlede of nowing the party platform? Fuck that.

[EyeBrock]

$500, bargain.....I must join. Chretien alone is worth it. The Lib version of Mulroney.

[OnTheIce]

kenmore wrote:

Typical tory rhetoric there OnTheIce and pure bullshit. The libs have a good plan for the economy, the employment situation, housing, education and the environment.
You might want to read their platform before you make the usual tory lies up.

You just outright lied to us.

Your party has no policy ready, nor have they shared any of if with people like you.

You have no platform. You have read no such platform.

You're a liar.