Sun Ottawa Bureau’s Greg Weston joins the choir (actually he’s one of the strongest voices—who am I kidding?) denouncing the Liberals for stealing our money.
Thanks for the 31 cent tax cut
For Canadian taxpayers, the bottom line of yesterday’s federal budget is that Mr. Dithers and a year of Liberal government still won’t buy you a cup of coffee.
In the budget that minority politics built, Paul Martin’s government has something for everyone, not a lot for anyone, and a stunning 31 cents a week in personal tax cuts (this is not a misprint), soaring to 62 cents in 2007.
Don’t spend it all at once.
Similarly, the Martin government is coming to the rescue of Canada’s poorest seniors, hiking their guaranteed income supplement by a whopping 38 cents a week.
We can hear the dancing in the seniors’ res from here.
If the country were broke, so much miserly misery from one government might be understandable.
But the government is rolling in so much of our dough that it literally cannot spend all those billions fast enough.
Only last week, the auditor general pounded the Liberals (for about the 10th time) for stashing away over $9 billion of tax money it doesn’t immediately need, and hiding it in the bank accounts of secretive foundations.
Yesterday Finance Minister Ralph Goodale responded by squirreling at least $5 billion more, most of it to be spent at some future date in ways yet to be determined.
That’s about $14 billion of our money—or roughly $1,000 for every taxpayer in the country—just sitting in government bank accounts.
Put in simple terms, the government could theoretically send every taxpayer a cheque for $1,000 and still have plenty of money left in the treasury to fund every federal program and Liberal promise this year.
Looking at it another way, the government could be issuing $1,000 bigger refund cheques this year for tax overpayments, but has decided to keep the money instead to spend sometime down the road.
In short, Canadian taxpayers are being bilked for a ton more money than the government needs.
It just got worse.
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He doesn’t ask what I and several others are asking: Where are the fiscal conservatives in Canada? Where’s the vociferous criticism? They play coy when it comes to social conservatism (a terrible mistake on every level), but are they playing that same game on fiscal matters too now? As long as they’re going to endorse the Liberals’ socialist budget, why don’t they just join hands with the Liberals and sing together? At least it wouldn’t hurt my ears so much.
And actually, I guess my “choir” analogy is a malapropism now, too, given all the liberal-left love. Here’s hoping Greg Weston and others join me in staying on point. The point being “conservative”.
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