Partisan Economis

[biglentil]

Sure when the Liberals crack the money tap wide open the stock market will go up.

[cottonpicken]

Ok DM,I've been following this stuff a long long time and I really really hope your right i want to be wrong especially about myself and this.

[chuckChuck]

Harper ran a lot of deficits. Bailed out the auto industry. He presided over an energy and resource boom not of his making.

The capital outflows are a result of low oil prices which are not set in Canada.

Germans have almost a 20% VAT. Compared to 10% in Saskatchewan, 5% in Alberta. Germans have a lot of well funded social programs and are the strongest economy in Europe. With high employment.

The US has lower personal taxation and higher corporate taxation.

Many Canadians have no savings, spend more than they make, waste alot of money and are one paycheck away from serious problems.

So alot of the arguments about taxation and government spending need careful and thought full analysis.

[ado089]

Perhaps there is a lag between fiscal policy and economic outcome?

[cottonpicken]

Lol,germany is pretty far from ok,they are also joint and severe with the rest of the eu,kind of like how saskabush is with the rest of canada.

[foragefarmer]

Stonepicker

NOT endorsing the Mb. NDP government but, just wondering what they have to do with a comparison of the federal Liberals and Conservative governments and the gains achieved in the Canadian stock market, while in power?

[stonepicker]

Every prov. gov. has a lot to do with the economic activity within their prov., which affects the rest of the country. Take a look at the different province's. Alberta will be a good experiment. Mb. has oil, potash, gold, hydro electric power and the highest ratio of gov. employees in the country. Guess which one is being fully utilized. Dissappointing. Ontario? Bowing to the unions, why are companies continually leaving? Sask. ( the former gap ) now an economic powerhouse with world-class companies in saskatoon. Getting long, time to stop.

[stonepicker]

Maybe i read between the lines but it looked like a thread about whether left leaning gov. was better than right leaning. Not so?

[dmlfarmer]

The point of the thread was to try to find out why there is such a strong perception that "right leaning" (Conservative/Republican) governments are better fiscal/economic managers when history clearly shows both in Canada and the US shows that the economy has done better under left "leaning governments" Liberals/Democrats.

[foragefarmer]

Federal Liberals are center right, the Canadian stock market had better gains when they were in power according to the stats. That was not between the lines as the left had nothing to do with it!!