Dracula returns to Canada in form of Liberal spending

Dear Editor: It’s too bad that young elitists never have to manage a piggy bank or operate a paper route when they’re growing up. It focuses the mind and teaches that you can only take out after putting something in.

The penny finally seems to have dropped for Justin Trudeau. His reckless spending has backed him into a corner where it’s obvious that he must resort to increased taxation or credit financing, or both, to keep his sunny ways agenda going. We’re already up to our ears in deficits for the next 30 years, so taxes it is. The sunshine pumps must be kept going at all costs.

The Liberal’s small business tax grab is like déjà-vu all over again, to quote Yogi Berra. When Pierre Trudeau named Marc Lalonde as his finance minister in 1979 politically incorrect Newfoundland MP John Crosbie, quipped, “The Canadian economy needs a transfusion and who do they give us, Dracula.”

It’s believed that perfect socialism can only exist in a cloistered religious community of monks or nuns, but the devout always find it troubling that some of their number inevitably appear fatter than the rest.

Trudeau and Morneau don’t get that small business, and not government, creates middle class jobs, and that more government jobs don’t really count for anything. They claim to be targeting “the rich” with the aim of tax fairness, but they continue to exempt the super rich, like themselves, whose fortunes are nicely fenced off in trust funds, foundations and off-shore tax havens.

Winston Churchill observed that socialism only works in two places; heaven where it isn’t needed, and hell where they already have it.

Dracula is back and John Crosbie is now 86-years-old and living in retirement. So we’ll have to resort to more passive measures, like prayers and garlic necklaces, to keep him at bay until the next election. John Thompson

Kaleden