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To: Les H who wrote (52510)	6/9/1999 12:07:00 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 67261

GO STEVE GO!!!. Don't listen to those leftist BSers in the lamestream press. A candidate running on tax cuts will be a BIG winner! interactive.wsj.com Tax Cuts Rewarded--II For the second time in a week, Canadian voters have gone over to a party promising to cut their taxes. Last Thursday, they returned Conservative Mike Harris to power as Ontario's Premier after he cut tax rates by 30% and pledged to cut them another 20%. Now New Brunswick voters have elected a new Conservative government pledged to cut tax rates by at least 10%. Bernard Lord is all of 33 years old, and has been in New Brunswick's parliament for less than a year. But his fresh ideas have now made him the Premier of Canada's Atlantic province after his party won 45 out of 55 seats in parliament. Going into the election, it held only nine out of 55. What happened? Polls had the incumbent Liberal government ahead by more than 10 points in mid-May. Then the Conservatives unveiled a platform with several innovations. It would reduce taxes on voters bearing the second-highest tax burden in all of Canada. The cut was pitched in explicit supply-side terms. "Lower taxes can lead to more, not less, revenue as more people work and the economy grows," said the party manifesto. There was also a Taxpayer's Protection Act that promised to seek voter approval of tax increases. Finally, an Accountability Pledge specified what actions Mr. Lord would take in his first 200 days in office. Losing ground, the Liberals offered a tax cut of their own and joined in the Tory call to also cut corporate income taxes on small business in half. But they lacked credibility, having cancelled a scheduled tax cut for "fiscal reasons" only last December. Mr. Lord now faces the challenge of balancing competing claims on his budget. Private-sector employment has grown recently as companies such as Xerox and Purolator have noticed the province's well-educated work force. But the health-care system can't keep up with rising demand for a "free" product. Reform of health-care is a priority in Canada, but Mr. Lord shrank from that in his campaign. When looking at the back-to-back victories for tax-cutting parties in Ontario and New Brunswick, we're struck by the fact that voters only plumped for them after being convinced they would deliver as promised. In the U.S., such pledges lost favor when President Bush broke his "no new taxes" commitment in 1990. But U.S. politicians should also recall that the GOP landslide of 1994 came with the Contract With America, which remained popular until the government shutdown and Dick Morris's negative ad barrage. All the GOP Presidential candidates, including Elizabeth Dole and John McCain, have signed or plan to sign the Americans for Tax Reform pledge not to raise federal taxes. Governor George W. Bush of Texas had expressed some hesitation, but yesterday his office faxed a letter accepting the exact wording of the pledge to Americans for Tax Reform. Obviously something very interesting is happening to politics in Canada. With the Tories there showing the way, it remains for Republicans in Congress to lay solid claim to the tax issue, before someone else does.