Michael Hartog

Conservative Spending

You hear it all the time from conservatives: “Liberal Spending”. ‘They are going to waste all your money on the arts, on poor people and on social programs. Millions of dollars on helping other people. We’re not like that, we are going to save your money.’ And yet, every conservative government seems to go into debt just the same. It’s because conservatives are big spenders, too. They just spend money in a way that their buddy likes. Tax breaks for the rich, tax breaks for big business and jets for the military. But they have fooled everyone into thinking that tax breaks, for some reason, aren’t spending. For some reason, if you give me money, then I give part of that money back, you think I haven’t given you money? Bullshit, I effectively have less income which ends up being the same. And these things all proportionately favour the rich. That is, you will get $20 back and not care, and they will get $20,000 back… and not care. When the government gives people money back in taxes they save that money. It doesn’t help the economy, it doesn’t help the businesses.

And how about this. A party that is so intent on businesses proving themselves and capitalist rules yet they still want to give money to them every year. Tax breaks means giving businesses money. Spending government money on businesses. Except I thought that a business was supposed to survive if they were better than other businesses and consumers decided to spend money there, not based on government handouts. Just using the exact same political comments that conservatives use where applicable.