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Le budget fédéral vu du Canada anglais

Andrew Coyne commente le budget fédéral et la promesse de Johnny Boy de baisser les impôts avec l'argent des autres:

This is just so brazen it's almost charming. Years of crying poor over the alleged "fiscal imbalance," how they couldn't afford to provide essential public services and it was all la faute du fédérale, how "the feds have the money but the provinces have the needs," and what do they do? They use the money to cut taxes!...

Marvellous. Taxpayers in the rest of Canada pay higher taxes, so that Quebec's can pay lower. Companies in Ottawa get to subsidize their competitors in Hull.

Of course, if the PQ gets in, they'll use the same money to pay for a referendum, so...

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