Bad policy for the working class

Income redistribution, Harper-style: Goar

There went Canada’s surplus for the next four years.
 

The tax cuts and children’s benefit top-ups that Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced last week will eat up $27 billion. That is approximately the amount the federal finance department is projecting in annual surpluses from now until 2018.
 

Canadians sacrificed a lot — public services and programs, reliable statistics, environmental safeguards, up-to-date infrastructure and a human voice on the phone — to create this pool of black ink. And now without public or political debate, it’s gone.
 

Is this how Canadians would have chosen to spend their surplus?

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