Sunday, December 21, 2008

Campaigning on Raising Taxes Has Never Been a Winner

In English or French. Ask Stephane Dion.

6 comments:

Leny Vilekoskytch said...

But on the upside, he gets to run against someone who is ushering in some rather large deficits.

James Curran said...

Yes. And the opposition are all on record, and were going to bring him down, for not offering stimulus. Now he'll be in deficit and simply blame the opposition for forcing him to offer up stimulus. You gotta go inside the head there Leny.

Leny Vilekoskytch said...

He can blame the opposition and in turn be blamed for squandering those surpluses when times were still good which made the deficits even bigger.

In the same way that the Conservatives can make Ignatieff's openness to the raising the GST in three or four years a stunning revalation (or a bombshell in the words of one particular conservative pundit) of his tax and spend ways, the Liberals can run by comparing Harper's economic record to the Liberals' circa 1993 - 2006.

James Curran said...

You mean we're actually going to campaign on our good fiscal record? About 5 years too late no?

Leny Vilekoskytch said...

Well it is a crazy idea. But it is probably a good fall back option if campaigning on who has written more books fails to catch on with the public.

Blues Clair said...

Opposition takes credit for planned deficit spending

That's the headline at the Globe and Mail. It was speculated after the election that Harper wanted to share the burden of the recession with the opposition. So far a job well done.