Tax Cuts and Election Politics (edited)

Lets talk about federal elections and tax cuts. The federal government has recently announced tax cuts the Bloc and NDP has opposed these bills while the Liberals while against them have decided to abstain and let these bills pass. Despite all the treading water it is clear the reason for the Liberals abstaining is because they are not prepared for an election as well as they are still under the delusion that, in their minds, previous glory days of themselves can in the short future return if they hold on hoping the tides will turn in public polls. Many of the parties have been vocally against these tax cuts and instead would like to see the surplus that funds these tax cuts be used for social programming.

Many people response to this is why not support a tax break and in that way those receiving it can choose to spend it as they wish. The response to this is that those that would benefit the most from additional funding towards social programs would benefit the least in relation to social programs from these tax cuts (i.e., they could afford through these tax cuts).

That is to say by the very nature tax cuts must be a small percentage to ensure that both the treasury still has adequate funding as well as that there is a spread of tax cuts amongst the population (i.e., those entitled to tax cuts under the regulation receive them); whereas, funding for social programming can be budgeted with less guess work as numbers rather than percentages are used. Furthermore, while the general population pays taxes we all do not use social programming all the time, at the same time, yet we all at sometime will use social programming (i.e., most people will use the health care system while not all the time, and at the same time as each other) this results in a group of people that on a micro perspective is more concentrated and smaller as compared to the boarder tax cuts (i.e., everyone gets a piece of the pie and they eat from the pie at the same time) which means those taking part in the funded social programming (as we will all probably do at some point) get better services (than what they would otherwise be able to afford with the tax cuts) due to the concentrated spending of the surplus: i.e., cost-benefit ratio economics.