Via Wells, Harper today:

“The difficulty with the opposition, everyone knows, is they can complain about the deficit all they want, but everyone knows they’d run it a lot higher and they’d make it permanent.”

“We don’t want to get into a situation like the Liberals had us in in the ’90s, where they were raising taxes and cutting health care and education.”

So, to recap, our economist Prime Minister believes that the Liberals would:

a) Increase taxes
b) Cut spending
c) Increase the deficit

Now, I’ve taken a few ECON classes at Harper’s alma mater, and this kind of goes against what they taught us. Of course, I may have skipped that class – in which case, I’m sure that was also the same day they covered “if we were going to have a recession, it would have happened by now“.