According to Stephane Dion; Stephen Harper will jeopardize Canada's economy by missing out on a new industrial revolution. Stephane Dion happens to be the leader of that same Liberal Party that claimed that Canada is the land of tomorrow, coincidentally a report came out from the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives that concluded countries with higher taxes were happier then those with lower taxes. I see the correlation, the Liberals are planning to run a campaign for higher taxes & more social programs, not too capitalistic at all, in fact Dion is an admitted Marxist.
According to the report:
- lower rates of poverty; more equal income distribution, and more economic security for their workers; a higher GDP per capita; (in other words more taxes for the rich, no flat tax, & forcing every individual to suffer equally in poverty)
- higher rates of household saving and net national saving; (subsidized housing often leads to poor housing; just look at both the Communist & third world)
-greater innovation, including a higher percentage of GDP spent on research and development; (the United States leads the world in innovation, & research, & they are very capitalistic)
- a higher ranking on their growth competitiveness by the World Economic Forum; (The European Union serves an example of a stagnant economy with very little economic growth, including those Nordic countries this report praises)
- higher rates of secondary school and university completion; (1. when graduates enter the workforce the jobs aren't there & 2. too many courses in college & university have nothing to do with the real world)
- less drug use, more leisure time, and higher life satisfaction. (Vancouver's experiment with dope using booths is failing miserably since drug use has been on the increase. How is having more low end retail jobs making for better job & life satisfaction? Higher taxes deter industries that pay higher wages)
Similarly a report was recently published stating the exact opposite citing that capitalistic countries with lower taxes tend to have happier people with better lives, so it's no surprise that Dion & his Liberal supporters would use the advantage of a Canadian view to distort information painting Marxism in a bright picture detailing how great socialism is. The Liberal economist loses his credibility with statements such as the following statement:
"By cutting taxes, the Conservative government in Canada is headed in the wrong direction,” says Brooks. “It wants to make Canada more like the United States"
The United States is the most powerful economic engine of our time, without the United States Canada wouldn't have the economy we got, in reality poverty rates would be much higher, & Albertans wouldn't be a have province. The Liberals have moved too far to the economic left, & if Canadians don't send the message enough is enough, then the social programs that the left claims will end poverty will have the opposite effect. Marxism doesn't work!
Sources: Edmonton Sun
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