Corcoran Versus Simpson! eems Like A "Fair" Fight

BTW.....taxes are not always bad but the way they are sometimes spent is questionable. Look At "No New Taxes McGoonty's" health tax.

Terence Corcoran: The frightening thought that taxes are bad

Posted: July 14, 2009, 8:34 PM by NP Editor

Jeffrey Simpson turns a sound Harper tax comment into a ‘scary, scary’ idea

By Terence Corcoran

T

he Reverend Jeffrey Simpson, keeper of The Globe and Mail’s firm grasp on conventional gospel, the Al Sharpton of Canadian Liberalism, an old fogie from the day he began writing his Globe column in 1949, knee-jerk anti-Conservative and now fire-and-brimstone preacher of climate doom, champion of carbon controls and higher taxation as the path to salvation: You know who I’m talking about.

Yesterday, Rev. Simpson worked himself up into a righteous lather over comments Prime Minister Stephen Harper made about taxation following the G8 summit last week in Italy. “You know, there’s two schools in economics on this. One is that there are some good taxes and the other is that no taxes are good taxes. I’m in the latter category. I don’t believe that any taxes are good taxes.”

With this quote as fuel, Rev. Simpson propelled himself and his Liberal congregation into a hysterical anti-Conservative, anti-Harper orbit. “This assertion,” wrote Mr. Simpson, “is one of the most stunning, revealing and, frankly, ignorant statements ever made by a prime minister, let alone one who keeps purporting to be an economist, despite doing so many things that economists deplore.”

And, he continued:

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