Lamrock defies Premier's word to not raise taxes
From the Telegraph Journal today: "He [Kelly Lamrock] said he supports rolling back higher-income tax cuts to get more money for education".
First of all, let's get a few things straight here. We all know that there has never been a promise of "higher-income tax cuts" [on record] from this Liberal government as all we have seen, thus far, is regressive income tax hikes. In other words, it's pretty much impossible for Lamrock to "roll back" something that doesn't exist in the first place, right?
Furthermore, not only is the above scenerio explained in the TJ totally impossible, it basically comes down to the fact that he [Lamrock] supports further tax increases so that he can collect additional revenue in order to spend his way towards his educational goals for New Brunswick. A strategy, I might add, that has delivered very little results in the past.
More importantly, it's obvious that he didn't consult the premiers office before uttering these tax increase threats because his boss [Shawn Graham] is on record last spring stating that his government will not increase taxes anymore in their first mandate. Methinks Lamrock is not listening. Either that or the premier's word is worth nothing to him.
A little defiant, don't you think?
First of all, let's get a few things straight here. We all know that there has never been a promise of "higher-income tax cuts" [on record] from this Liberal government as all we have seen, thus far, is regressive income tax hikes. In other words, it's pretty much impossible for Lamrock to "roll back" something that doesn't exist in the first place, right?
Furthermore, not only is the above scenerio explained in the TJ totally impossible, it basically comes down to the fact that he [Lamrock] supports further tax increases so that he can collect additional revenue in order to spend his way towards his educational goals for New Brunswick. A strategy, I might add, that has delivered very little results in the past.
More importantly, it's obvious that he didn't consult the premiers office before uttering these tax increase threats because his boss [Shawn Graham] is on record last spring stating that his government will not increase taxes anymore in their first mandate. Methinks Lamrock is not listening. Either that or the premier's word is worth nothing to him.
A little defiant, don't you think?
8 Comments:
Bogus!!! Just like Lamrock's goal to ensure bilingualism among at least 70 per cent of graduating high schoolers within the next few years.
Just goes to show that a leopard cannot change his spots. Lamrock is a socialist. He was a staunch NDP supporter throughout university and only became a Liberal in order to get the political power he craves above all else.
If I recall this is the second time he's publicly called for another tax increase to fund his personal agenda and its the second time he has been at odds with Graham.
I am all for education reform but there should be no blank cheque for Lamrock and no increase in taxes simply to satisfy that massive ego. He has his own agenda and won't listen to reason - just ask any parent of Albert Street...
Anon: that was a very ambitious goal considering the low numbers that currently exist. Maybe a little too ambitious.
kit: thanks for the info as I wasn't aware of Lamrock's political past as a youthful neophyte. Sounds like he is the same old Kelly, but now wrapped in red.
Happy to help
Its all here at Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Lamrock
"Though he had been often associated with the New Brunswick New Democratic Party and helped write that party's platform for the 1999 provincial election, he soon became active in the New Brunswick Liberal Party. Lamrock chaired the party's policy renewal process in 2001 and was nominated as candidate for Fredericton-Fort Nashwaak under the Liberal banner in 2002."
Of note his old blog "The daily Kel" is still available and is a good insight into his thoughts, his current blog is less so - see
http://dailykel.blogspot.com
http://www.kellylamrock.com/emain.asp
Both have been inactive for some time.
thx kit. I'll take a look.
As per The Temptations:
"Politicians say more taxes will say everything...and the band played on"
This seems to be a typical Liberal solution, throw money at the problems. Our educational system is obviously not meeting stated goals, thus increased funding will help us meet this goal. It's an easy out, which eliminates any need to actually change the school system. It also eliminates the need to ruffle feathers in the NBTA and at the Dept of Education.
Perhaps we should determine how well the existing money is being spent, how much we spend to produce a high school graduate, and compare to similar systems. We should also determine whether or not fancy expensive toys like laptops and electronic white boards are helping our children learn.
The policy paper produced by Lamrock was full of laudible goals, but very vague on details. I would like to know how we will reach those goals before we start chucking money around.
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Mr lamrock’s long-awaited education plan lacks a detailed explanation of how his dept plans to make its goals reality. As rob mentions above, research shows that increasing the amount spent on education does not necessarily make for a better education system.
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