Blast From The Future

This budget has been craft(y)ed well. Infrastructure in parts of this country have been ignored by socialist regimes who favor optics to concrete. Because matching funds are needed for projects even with pleas of Dire Straits there will be no Money for Nuthin or Chick(en)s for Free. Anticipate large amount of these stimulus monies will remain unspent due to shovel unreadiness and plain old unneeded.

Ah yes, the great Toothless Tiger Tax Revolt of 1995.

My taxes are still too high and so are everyone else's.

We have too much government and it's still growing like a fat child on his way to morbid obesity. Well, they are actually already there and they need a crash diet now.

But wait, with the big recession on and so many unemployed, so many businesses closed and so much demand for free money for the losers, they are already on that diet, but guess what?

Government's are closet taxers, they will find away to quietly "get even" with us for not coughing enough up. Aaaaand they will print a whole bunch of extra money to devalue whatever money we may have.

They already got even with a bunch of companies and their, largely older Canadian investors by canceling out the Income trust status of many companies and thereby wiping out the retirement savings of thousands of seniors along the prosperity of those companies. But hey, they did it in the name of 'fairer' taxation.

We outta know better than to demand tax relief from money and power addicts.

Stephen Harper is the new Bob Rae. You guys in Ontario remember how well that worked, right?

I am still trying to get over the article/personal story someone posted in readers tips few days ago.

Canadians are to blame for the mess we are in as we have allowed government to become this huge albatross that we have to keep feeding and feeding and feeding. It's insane!!

This all started when the feds started taking income tax. It allowed government to get a foothold on our pay cheques, and they are now like the crack addict who needs a constant fix.

The way to solve this problem is the same way it started. Remove income tax and institute a consumption tax. Reduce gov't by 50% back to where it was when it started, which was looking after our infrastructure, and not much else. The provinces should be the ones with the power, not a centrally located morass.

Right you are Aizlynne! Income tax is still not legal in Canada - it was an amendment passed during WWI to cover the war debt.

Property taxation is the proper route to follow, IMO. The government should make Crown property available to the citizens of Canada in a homestead type arrangement. If the vast open spaces of this country were peopled with land owners we would have a vested interest in our own country and things would be a lot different. Renters would be taxed via their landlords. Independence and pride would return to the psyche of Canadian people.