Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Another "prominent" Liberal claims Canada is in deficit, lies about income tax

Garth Turner, a self-proclaimed communications expert claims on his blog that Canada is in deficit.

... spend more than Liberals, to reduce a surplus to a deficit,...

Garth Turner. Is. Dead. Wrong.

Repeat after me:
Canada is not in deficit.
Canada is not in deficit.
Canada is not in deficit.

Let's talk about this "massive" spending increases. As I have already talked about here, you can see that most of the increased spending is in transfers to the provinces and territories. The finance department is now projecting about a 3 billion dollar surplus, a slight increase from the 2.3 billion originally forecast.

If you don't believe, what about what the Globe and Mail said?

Substantial increases in transfers to the provinces have meant that provincial budgets are now far healthier, and federal-provincial bickering has dropped to a dull roar.

Garth, are you against increased transfers to the province to improve health care and education? Would you prefer that the Government of Canada keeps those billions to spend in March Madness and instead force the provinces and territories to raise it from increased taxes?

Jim Stanford, economist for the Canadian Auto Workers conceded that "Our schools and our hospitals are in better shape than they would have been otherwise,".

The lowered corporate tax cuts (that the NDP wants to take away) have helped Canada's corporations remain competitive.

The last round of tax cuts, announced last November, were particularly well timed to help stimulate a flagging economy.

Garth goes onto to lay out another whopper out when he claims that "Income taxes have not come down a dime since Harper came to power. In fact, he raised them in his first budget.".

You sir, are deliberately lying.

This government has lowered the income tax paid to the government for all Canadians, in the 2007 fall fiscal update income tax reductions have occurred or were scheduled:
  • An increase in the basic personal amount exemption to $9,600 from $8,929, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2007;
  • Two years later, on Jan. 1, 2009, the basic personal amount exemption will be increased to $10,100;
  • The lowest personal income tax rate moves to 15 per cent from 15.5 per cent, effective Jan. 1 2007, undoing a change made in the first Conservative budget.
I can hear you now, see the Conservatives raised income taxes. Yes, they raised the base rate of taxation to 15.5%, but threw in enough other offsets that every single Canadian paid less income tax. Read the 2006 budget yourself, were you not part of the government then?

Lowering personal income taxes for all taxpayers, which, together with the GST reduction, provides almost $20 billion in tax relief to individuals over the next two years. It will do this through:To refresh your memory Garth, the Liberals lowered the tax rate to 15% from 15.5% just weeks before the government fell. It was a pathetic attempt to buy votes, one that wasn't planned, and it didn't work. That is why you are in opposition. I remember reading about the costs to reprint the income tax forms as the current year's was already printed as the bureaucracy was taken by surprise by the announcement.

So Garth, can we expect an apology from you regarding your misleading and outright lies contained in your blog post?

We're better off with Harper.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I couldn't believe not only his blatant lies; but the number of commenters who were actually blaming Stephen Harper for the market meltdown.

"He Knew" - of course he knew - if he didn't know, Garth, you would be railing away about the fact he shouldn't have known.

Garth is a disgrace and the liberal party deserves him.

Anonymous said...

Nothing new here, the liberals always put getting elected ahead of governing wisely.

Anonymous said...

I sometimes wonder why conservatives even bother to repond to the ravings of this idiot who is:
a) a liar
b) a fool
c) a person without integrity

Perhaps it is simply that he is such an easy target that it gives us all a chance to blow off steam at someone who is mentally deficient without violating some politically correct stricture against saying bad things about someone afflicted with this handicap.

zednik said...

Its Garth?
What did you expect?

AnonymousCoward said...

Powell, I admit, its like a moth to a fire :)

I cannot help but respond to the lies and deceit of this elected MP

He is an elected MP, people will be more apt to trust what he says.

He is abusing his position of trust and authority.

wilson said...

Garth, Iggy and Martin....you lose:

Economy records largest advance since 2004 in July
Sep. 30 2008

CTV.ca News Staff

Canada's gross domestic product rose above projected expectation in July based largely on the strength of the energy sector.

Statistics Canada reported Tuesday that the economy grew 0.7 per cent, surpassing the 0.2 per cent increase that economists in the private sector had expected.

It's the fastest growth rate since March 2004.
...
*****Much of the remaining growth in Canada's economy was due to strength in the manufacturing and wholesaling industries, StatsCan reports.

Within the manufacturing industry, an advance of 1.3 per cent was registered, with 17 of the 21 major industry groups recording increases.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080930/economy_growth_AM_080930/20080930?hub=TopStories

Anonymous said...

Wilson, you beat me to the punch on this one. I was busy doing something useful when I saw the numbers, so I was late getting my two-cents worth in on this story.
I can just envision the Nutty Professor, Taliban Jack, Hezb'Allah Hattie, Goofy Garth, Robber Rae, and Inept Iggy claiming this is just an aberration, unlike the previous month's growth of .1% which was, obviously, a much truer picture of the economy. These clowns are so busy tripping over their own feet it's a wonder they get any votes at all.

Unknown said...

Income taxes were ruled unconstitutional in the late 1800s. It's interesting that Income Tax was started the same year as the Federal Reserve. We did not have a federal income tax in America until the year 1913.
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