So now we know: 5.6 billion short in one year: "Outgoing Tories Outright Lied" say the Liberal paper The Star. Nothing to compare with Mulroney's 300 plus billion gift of Federal debt to us all from 1983 to 1993 the pay back of which and interest upon which (on top of the 1983 balance of about 170 billion) that has severely cut into what we get in health care, road repair, military spending - but still par for the course for folks who tell us they believe government is run like a business and then run it something like Enron...well, you get the idea. Still, it could be worse - consider the charge rates of provincial Tories under Buchanan's NS Tories or the Saskatchewan PCs on top of their contemporaneous massive deficits.
Why is taxing me enough for the services I need and get best from government so vague a concept?
Comments
Shelley - October 30, 2003 11:12 am
In all fairness, Alan - isn't this a song that almost every new gov't sings? I seem to recall the Ontario NDP saying the same thing when they took over from the Petersen Liberals. "We'd like to do what we said, but gosh darn it, our information was wrong."
Alan - October 30, 2003 11:22 am
You are right - except that the Tories say they will run it like a business and not fall into the problem. Also, the Tories during the election they were pegging the sfortfall at about 2 billion. When the NDP says they will spend their way out of a bad economy like they did in BC, they are at least honest in their error.
Shelley - October 30, 2003 8:53 pm
Fair enough. There don't ever seem to be any easy answers, do there?
Alan - October 31, 2003 7:17 am
But the thing that I do not undersand is that we have many cities bigger than provinces and the cities must spend only what comes in? What is the difference in the political approach to prudence - is it only opportunism, duping me with my own moneying?
Alan - November 4, 2003 11:52 am
Not much of a reply from Eves given the lessening of the likelihood of the Fed transfer on health and the recommendation to cut now to pay for past mismanagement.
Alan - December 4, 2003 2:58 pm
The Ontario Auditor General, an independent officer of Government, has set out how inept the former Tory government was in managing its business affairs.
wisdom - April 26, 2004 11:40 pm
Spending other peoples money to do the good YOU KNOW (and others, taxpayers all) don't, is the unhappy role of every left elitist populist crook since the beginnig of governing. They can't resist tax and spend, what is needed is a limit on taxing, say no more than 1/4tr total on income to both levels of government with financial rewards to those civil servants who do more with less. Citizens who think they are getting more than they're paying always vote for the spenders. Ergo move in the flat tax. Let's reward work and expand the pie, then add collective goodies as they become affordable. Common sense-vote Conservative!