THE SAME OLD TAX SCAM

Andrew Scheer's platform is finally out.  It's riddled with benefits for the average Canadian.  There are transit tax credits, there are maternity tax credits, there are home improvement tax credits, there are green tax credits, the list goes on and on.
Scheer wants you to spend and when you do he wants you to get tax credits for it.
Put thousands of dollars of your money up front and then get around 17% of the credit amount back in your taxes, or at least cut down the taxes you pay the Federal Government.
There are THREE major problems with this approach:
1. You have to have the money to spend on these things in order to qualify for the credit.
2. You have to have a lot of it and spend a lot of it before you'll see even a dime back.
3. Even though very few people are ever actually in a position to utilize these credits (because they don't spend the minimum since they can't afford it anyway) there's never any explanation HOW the Government expects to make up the budget shortfall.

As we've seen in Ontario when a party says, "elect us, we'll give you your money back without harming anything" and then everything that party does harms the very things they said they wouldn't, well, it's hard to trust the Federal version.  Particularly since the Federal party is hammering the government for not balancing the books and tossing around the vaguely frightening "live within it's means" line. 
No government can live within it's means without either cuts or tax increases - yet Scheer is completely silent on both because either would cost him the election he's going to lose anyway.

And if that isn't bad enough, the Conservatives at both the Federal level AND in many Provinces have been attacking Trudeau's CARBON REBATE PROGRAM. 
Unlike a Tax Credit, this rebate was paid to Canadians before the program came into effect so EVERYONE began with a credit, that way the tax charged was a fraction for the average person of what the rebate had already given then (thereby eliminating the strain) while major polluters are paying the bulk of the tax that will fund the program.

Trudeau's Child Care Benefit provides low income Canadians with an increasing amount each month.  The money is paid to them because of qualifiers and they get it monthly.  This way the most money went to those who most need it when they needed it.
The Conservative's child tax credit required parents to spend money on sports programs, child care, and then get a portion of that back as a credit. This way the most money went to those who could afford to spend the most of it.

Do you see the logic?  It's the difference between Liberals and Conservatives.
Liberals leverage the taxpayer to help those who need it.
Conservatives leverage the taxpayer to reward those who don't, so the upper middle class with support them at the cost of those who need help the most. 
The Conservative approach doesn't help the economy because...
It's impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you can't afford boots!
The whole point of taxes in Canada goes back to our founders, who were REAL CONSERVATIVES - shared reward, shared sacrifice.  Our country is stronger if the poor kids are healthy, get education and have opportunities at least comparable to what the not poor kids have.  I know, because I was a welfare kid.  And while I couldn't afford University due to austerity cuts in my province at that time, I was able to at least graduate High School and did manage to continue my education through hard work only possible because my education allowed me to compete with those who never had to worry about paying their own way.  I'll put my writing skills, word power and knowledge against any Academic any time because I have honed my intellect through continual education.
Under what calls itself Conservative now (CINO - Conservative in name only) I would likely have stayed at the low income end, probably turning to self-directed black market entrepreneurial efforts just to pay my bills.  I would likely have been in jail at least three times by now, and had the Conservatives been in on that third time, remained so under their draconian 'three strikes' rule.
Instead I'm blathering on the internet.
Admittedly you can judge for yourself which route was better, but then in a free society that's exactly what you should do.  Cut through the clatter, look at the facts, investigate the claims and judge for yourself.
Otherwise it's just the same old tax scam.