My Portfolio Asset Allocation Manager Portfolio Snapshot Currency Calculator Future Value Calculator Budget Analyzer Regular Payments Calc. One-time Investment Calc. Rate of Return Calculator Retirement Planning Calc. Retirment Asset Allocation RRSP Graphing Calculator RRSP Tax Savings Calculator After-Tax Returns Calc. An honest politician, as the cynics love to say, is one who once bought stays bought.
Voters are a much tougher breed.
They are capricious, prone to mood swings and, most sinister of all, apt to forget that their ballot has already been mortgaged by some favour and vote for another scoundrel. We do not even have the benefit of a yawning deficit to constrain vote bidding. The 'who' is easier than the 'how', at least in theory. It is simply not reasonable to buy all the votes. No, the reason that politicians don't promise something to everyone is that we all get a little suspicious when everyone is included in the gift giving.