New Year’s means more tax increases

I am total agreement with James Miller’s editorial “Draw line on taxes”

Jan. 7).

We have yet another January, featuring tax and fee increases at all levels. Of course, the price of groceries is predicted to rise significantly in the new year, as will sin taxes like alcohol and tobacco along with the newest sin tax, “energy.”

Yep, everything that fuels your vehicle or warms and powers your home is increasing in leaps and bounds. After all, you should feel guilty about driving to the grocery store, to work or even out for a Sunday drive.

We should also feel guilty keeping our home heated to a comfortable level or too many lights on during dark days.

Our political leaders have become adept at sleight of hand by telling us how they’ve saved us money by cutting taxes or fees but don’t bother to point out how they’ve taken it all back and more in other areas. All levels of government, present and previous, are guilty of this.

They treat us, in the middle class and below, like fools, because they think we are too stupid to see how far we are falling behind. The yellow vest protests in Paris are a result of these groups saying “enough!” Our neighbors from Alberta have embraced this movement, and maybe so should we.

Sadly, it seems to me that politics has now become a career rather than an opportunity to serve. It’s more about maintaining power and a well-paid career rather than leading those you serve to a brighter future.

Maybe it’s time to change that, but how?