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Where's the outrage?
This is a good read. It clearly illustrates how the biases in this country cloud the reality of issues at hand.
Perhaps if most people saw things with such clear sight we'd have a different outcome this time around. Sadly people will believe just about anything the media tells them.
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Where's the liberal outrage?
Please help me. I am on a mission to find liberal outrage over Liberal tax cuts and I am failing miserably.
When federal Finance Minister Ralph Goodale announced $30 billion in tax cuts over the next six years in his recent mini-budget -- some of them retroactive -- I thought this was going to be a cinch.
I thought the Toronto Star would be on Prime Minister Paul Martin the next day like ugly on a dog, thundering that tax cuts are unconscionable at a time when people are dying on waiting lists for surgery, when aboriginals are living in squalour on native reserves and when young people are being lost to a life of gangs and guns in Toronto.
You know, like the Star does whenever a Conservative government introduces tax cuts.
The Star's response in its editorial the next day?
The headline was: "Martin's tax cuts steal Tory thunder."
Let's put it this way. It somewhat failed to achieve the level of one of the Star's anti-Mike Harris diatribes.
Then I thought that liberal media columnists, who are by no means confined to the Star, would dismiss these Liberal tax cuts as amounting to little more than a Big Mac a week for most of us, and that for a Big Mac a week, they weren't willing to watch the homeless starve and die on our streets.
You know, like they do whenever a Conservative government introduces tax cuts.
Then I waited for the CBC special quoting every left-wing academic it could find about how Martin must have been born in the age of the dinosaurs to propose tax cuts.
You know, like it does whenever a Conservative government introduces tax cuts.
Then I waited for the columns by criminology professors blaming tax cuts for the gang and gun violence in Toronto.
You know, like they do whenever a Conservative government introduces tax cuts.
Finally, I searched for complaints about Liberal tax cuts from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), charities, left-wing think tanks, community activists, feminists, union leaders, political action groups, and on and on.
You know, like they do whenever a Conservative government introduces tax cuts.
Once again, no luck. Here's why, I think.
First, a lot of it is partisanship and bias, people who prefer a Liberal government to a Conservative one and thus hold Liberals to a different standard than Conservatives.
Second, many people have come to think of the Liberals as the Liberals think of themselves, as the natural governing party of Canada, and thus, either consciously or unconsciously, allow the Liberals to frame the national debate on every major issue. If the Liberals say tax cuts are good when they deliver them, but bad when Conservatives deliver them, that's good enough for them.
Third, many organizations that might normally criticize the Liberals over tax cuts are funded by the federal government and after 12 years of Liberal rule, have come to see the governnment and the Liberals as essentially the same thing. Thus they're reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them.
Finally, there are those who, ideologically preferring Liberals to Conservatives, don't think the Liberals are serious about implementing the bulk of these tax cuts anyway, most of which won't kick in for several more years.
(On this point, at least, we agree.)
Anyway, I'm still searching for liberal outrage over tax cuts.
Guess I'll just have to wait until Stephen Harper proposes them during the election.
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Last edited by Jayx1 on Nov-27-2005 at 22:24
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