accused the Liberals of "hiding behind rhetoric" and "philosophical myths" about maintaining medicare and refusing to deliberate private services.Preston Manning, the leader for the Reform Party, referred to the Liberal tax-cut budget as a "shell game" and he stated to House of Commons that all spending initiatives stipulated in the budget should be distrusted because of the mismanagement of taxpayers' money at the human resources department. The Reform party is pursuing a 17% flat tax, which will result in everyone paying the same rate, thus offering unbalanced tax breaks to the wealthiest. Manning reasons that it will also stand to remove 2 million low-income Canadians from the tax rolls. He believes that the Liberals trumpeted tax breaks in this years budget while remaining silent on 60 other tax increases.A writer for The Toronto Star that while the taxes benefitted most, it did little for the growing homeless problem and the Liberal's long overdue assurance of a children's agenda. He contends that the tax cuts will profit the poor the most. According, to him the biggest disappointment in the budget was Ottawa's failure to ease the insoluble shortage of affordable housing in Canada's cities. He concludes by saying that the values in Martin's budget will promote growth, put more money in people's pockets and encourage innovation. However, it won't shelter Canada's neediest citizens.Obviously, the Liberals are standing behind this budget because they have the most to gain from it. They are basically 100% in support of Finance Minister, Paul Martins, relief tax system. g)your assessment of the budget I have to admit that the government made a lot of heavy duty changes in our tax system. All these billions of dollars that he has promised to cut in taxes is a good thing. However, I think tax payers could have benefitted more from him putting money back into the economy. What I mean is these tax cuts don't really have as much v...
