To the relief of just about everyone, the Québec budget passed yesterday. The PQ and the ADQ opposed the package, but to avert an election, the PQ had all of their members but three sit out the vote.
The PQ and ADQ opposed Charest's $950-million across-the-board tax cut. The ADQ said they wanted the money to go to debt reduction instead. The PQ claimed people who make more than $75,000 a year are "rich" and don't need a tax cut.
For months, I've been telling anyone who would listen that the ADQ is not an ideologically consistent conservative party. They showed it again this week. One could argue there's nothing unconservative about wanting to apply new money to debt repayment. But Quebec has the highest income taxes in North America, making it rather uncompetitive, and with a small percentage of the population paying such a high amount of tax, tax cuts for all who pay them was particularly urgent. The ADQ really disappointed this week.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 3:48 PM
