Wants to vote for none of the above

Editor: When I contemplate the choices we have in the upcoming provincial election, I get depressed.

I think we need a new category on the voting ballot entitled “none of the above.”

The Liberals can be characterized as sleazy, avaricious and sneaky taxers with a conceited attitude. They are also given to flip and smart-alec sophistry instead of candid, direct answers on issues. They obviously suffer from the corruption of power.

The NDP offers promises from high ideological origin, but little common sense. Their wild spending promises give new respect to the epithet about the drunken sailor by replacing it with a new one, desperate politician. They insult voters by then saying they will balance the budget by taxing only rich people. This is a common phoney promise and the math still does not work.

Then we have the Leap Manifesto that we can’t get straight answers on and the intent to see a mixed member proportional vote system that is not about reforming a repellent system, but about enhancing the seat counts of perennial also-ran parties.

And the Green Party is, well, the Green Party

I would just like to see for once a member of the Legislature stand up and rail against the massive taxation we all endure from the three levels of government to the point of taking over half of what we earn. I would vote for that person.

Excessive and growing household debt is a severe problem, warns the Bank of Canada and this is not because we are all spendthrifts, it is because there simply is not enough left after taxes. But perpetually, to them, every problem has a tax solution.

So, Elections BC, offer up the new category of “none of the above” on the ballot. I think the chances this category would win are good.

Roy Roope, Summerland