PPCLI Guy said:
Please don't assume that. I have followed your posts with interest - sadly, so have some of the usual gang of those who pile on to someone who is either new, or thinks differently. Your voice has as much value as anyone else's on this site - and many of your posts are more reasoned than those of others.
:ditto:
I often disagree with you,
jmt, but, then, I usually disagree with almost everyone on almost everything.
In fact I was going to post something to support your view that there are, essentially, "no new taxes" ~ at least not in the big scheme of things. I was going to add that there is, in fact, "no new anything," this is a timid, conservative, do nothing budget because no one in
official Ottawa wants to do anything because no one knows what the global economic situation is going to be like in six days, much less in six weeks, six months or six years.
Brexit, Donald Trump, the
South China Seas, global terrorism,
supply and demand and, and, and ... are all out of whack.
There are, generally, three major inputs to a budget: government, officials and allied experts, and the business community. In
my opinion this budget is about 95% officialdom, and 2.5% each government/politics and business. The officials are, by their very nature and by the nature of their environment, very, Very, VERY
conservative and this is a
conservative, stand-pat,
do nothing, signal nothing,
wait and see budget. The verbiage is "Team Trudeau"trying to set the table for 2019 ~ they will shift away,
I suspect, from the green, feminist and sunny ways agenda and towards an "innovation" agenda, but that's just a WAG ~ but the numbers, that "do nothing" are pure, cautious, timid, Canadian civil service.
Oh, and money for defence? Surely you all jest ... which amongst you can posit a coherent, sensible, comprehensible threat to Canada or its vital interests for which more military is the best answer? Overall,
Journeyman has it about right.