Angry in the Great White North

It's a shame, Michael Ignatieff said, that the GST was cut by the Conservatives.  It has left less money for spending:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s two cent GST cut crippled an important revenue stream and made it nearly impossible to properly fund infrastructure needs, Mr. Ignatieff said.

“(Mr. Harper) spent the cupboard bare.”

It's a shame, because governments ought to be on a spending spree funded by tax dollars:

However, moments later, Mr. Ignatieff told Newmarket’s council and senior staff Canadians should throw caution to the wind and treat ourselves to an unprecedented capital spending blowout for the country’s 150th anniversary in 2017.

A new ice rink, seniors centre or community centre would be a “gift to ourselves”, he said.

“We should be cutting a lot of ribbons July 1, 2017. It will cost a lot of money, ya, but we’re a rich country and we should be doing that,” Mr. Ignatieff said.

His message was a call-to-action that strayed from a status-quo funding formula and chided Conservative tax cutting.

Yes, darn giving back all that taxpayer money back to the taxpayers.

But then what about that revenue neutral Green Shift the Liberals aren't talking about anymore?  So much of that money is going back as tax cuts too?

Well, apparently returning money to taxpayers is a necessary evil:

On the other hand, his party’s Green Shift plan would change the way Ottawa generates tax revenue. It calls for a carbon tax on greenhouse-gas emitters and assumes corporations will pass along the costs of the tax to consumers.

But to help consumers and companies cover the cost, the Liberals would use their carbon-tax revenue to cut personal and corporate income tax.

“People will ask, ‘Why would you do that?’ We have no choice. That’s why people don’t get it,” Mr. Ignatieff said.

People don't get it?  Get what?  That there are tax breaks? 

Which people don't get the need for tax breaks?  Other Liberals?