Saskatchewan budget guesses

[FarmRanger]

The Martin/Chretian Liberals campaigned on a promise scrap the GST, which was broken, but unlike many Liberal broken promises, this time the budget was balanced with the combination of the new GST and downloading expenses onto provinces. They took advantage of the 7% GST that the Conservatives put in place which quite rightly replaced the manufacturers sales tax, which was a regressive tax that put Canadian industry at a competitive disadvantage to imports.


So foragefarmer please spare us the spin of how Liberals balance budgets. Of course Martin's CSL ships being registered outside Canada saved him millions in taxes while the rest of us bore the burden.

If only Trudeau 2.0 had broken his "small deficit promise" by balancing the budget instead of tripling the "promised" $10billion deficit. Canada WAS doing better than any other G7 country following the 2007 financial crisis, but with carbon taxes and projected massive deficits, we'll soon be swirling the toilet bowl too.

[foragefarmer]

Farmranger

Haven't heard from you in a while.

So there you go again blaming everybody else for Harper's failures. Give credit where credit is due, Martin and Chretien at least had the courage to take the steps to make the hard decisions. Why didn't Con/Reformer Harper make some tough decisions rather than solely worrying about only doing what was best to get re-elected again?

You come on here saying Trudeau is over spending and Chretien's balance budgets don't count, what 's your excuse for Harper's failures. Please justify to me and all your Con/Reformer buddies here on Agriville why it was ok for fiscally responsible Harper to increase the deficit by $160 billion!!!

Why do you think Canada was doing the best of all G7 nations? Martin wouldn't allow the 5 big banks to merge nor soften the rules on mortgages like the rest of the G7 nations did with there banks. Therefore, Harper inherited a balance budget along with the 5 big banks in good operating order, along with the rest of the nation. In fact Harper stood in the House of Commons opposing what Martin had done regarding the big 5 banks requests, and he still increased the deficit by $160 billion. I thought Harper was an Economist, shows he knew nothing about what he was talking about.

Farmranger, do yourself a favour and watch the movie "To Big to Fail" you'll learn something very important.

[FarmRanger]

Sigh

Movies are better at emotionally spinning BS, and aren't really great for teaching or informing. Example: the people mislead by "An Inconvenient <i>Truth</i>".

Try thinking about the financial crisis in 2007 like your house being on fire. Yes, you need to quickly spend money on fighting the fire, which the Cons did.

The irony of you're blaming them now for debt incurred at that time is the Libs and NDP had accused them of not spending enough. Throwing extra money into their BS pet projects would have been the equivalent of buying a new car and using the windshield wipers on it to help put out the housefire.

Given the unnecessary and massive deficit the Libs are running now, it's a good thing Harper was in charge in 2007, or we'd be paying interest on a 9 year old "Ferrari", instead of just the one-time use of a "firetruck".

[foragefarmer]

Farmranger

You keep fooling yourself that Harper had to run the deficit up because of the Liberals and the NDP, when the real reason was he was scared to lose his job as PM if a election were to be held.

Again, Harper was not willing to make tough decisions, as he would rather hold on to power and leave the country with a $160 billion debt.


Farmranger, you know very well that Harper was a big DUD, but you've been drinking the blue kool-aid way to long to admit it.

Since your using vehicles as an analogy, I would say Harper at best is a worn out old Lada, with absolutely no trade in value, and that's why he'e calling it quits in a couple of months.

Harper's nothing but a sore loser and should find a closet to hid in!

[mustardman]

The Sask deficit is in line with Alberta's deficit. Only difference is we have better SPIN Doctors

We're borrowing money to stay afloat

We're borrowing a billion to put toward Crowns that way they look good when we sell them for 10 cents on the dollar to our Corporate buddy's

Tax is a bad word here, they won't raise taxes on Anyone (except the seniors by making them pay more for Drugs but Don't call it a Tax no,no,no we don't use that word here.
I am willing to pay more tax on property
Why not raise that , all the ABSENTEE landlord are getting off easy

[seabass]

Trudeau senior started this deficit shit so shut up

[foragefarmer]

Seabass

Typical response, no substance!

As usual your missing the point, Martin and Chretien stopped the deficit habits of prior governments, but your Con/Reformer hero Harper, when getting into power started running them again. In fact, Harper has increased the national debt by $160 billion, more than any other PM.