Could it be that the NuGovs have put their social engineering plans aside? They have actually decided that people can make their own minds up and released each family from well over 1,000 bucks of a single earner family's tax obligation on one day:

• $201 is from each member of a couple is relieved from $670 bucks in the non-taxed personal deduction at the 15% rate.
• $150 on $30,000 of taxable income. The next level of taxation is lowered from 15.5% (where our rural overlords had lifted it) back to Paul Martin's 15%.
• $200 if I have $20,000 of GST attracting spending - through the dropping the GST from 5% to 6%.

$551 is not bad for a broad middle class tax break. Alone the GST lacked real punch and just shifting the half percent off the 15.5% was just undoing Harper's bad election idea but the combination adds. The best thing is also they really can't take credit as this is all due to the Chretien fiscal plan and the global hunger for oil.

Good for Harper to get out of the way but he is still going to have over a 10 billion dollar surplus for 2007-08. No wonder Dion can't get any headway. Harper's going to start wearing red ties soon.