{"id":546,"date":"2005-11-14T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=546"},"modified":"2005-11-14T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T22:35:00","slug":"the-guy-im-really-looking-for-wink-is-mr-bribe-wink-wink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"The guy I&#8217;m really looking for, wink, is Mr. Bribe, wink, wink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really not a big fan of tax cuts so Ralph&#8217;s <strike>budget<\/strike> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20051114.wbudg1014\/BNStory\/National\/\">economic update <\/a>doesn&#8217;t have me exceedingly thrilled. I also find it odd that Harper&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapleleafweb.com\/election\/federal\/2004\/platform\/conservative.html\">18 billion dollar tax cut package <\/a>was attacked as a recipe for deficit last campaign and now Goodale is ready to dish out 30 billion in tax breaks.<\/p>\n<p>That said, this is definitely a budget that will appeal to a lot of voters out there and it gives the Liberals some substance to campaign on. It&#8217;s also very good news for the NDP who will be able to play up the &#8220;<em>Liberals and Conservatives: different logo, same party<\/em>&#8221; angle.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> The tax proposals contain a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20051114.wtaxsav1114\/BNStory\/Front\">retroactive tax cut for 2005<\/a>. Very clever indeed. Now the Liberals can go around saying that forcing the early election will cost each and every Canadian 325$. Say what you want about them, but when it comes to winning elections, no one does it better than the big red machine.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and just so I don&#8217;t sound completely negative, there is 2.75 billion for post-secondary education and 3.5 billion for job training in the package which I think is money well spent. I&#8217;m still not big on the tax cuts though&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really not a big fan of tax cuts so Ralph&#8217;s budget economic update doesn&#8217;t have me exceedingly thrilled. I also find it odd that Harper&#8217;s 18 billion dollar tax cut package was attacked as a recipe for deficit last campaign and now Goodale is ready to dish out 30 billion in tax breaks. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}