Budget 2021: ‘We have lost our minds’
Re: A federal budget for you? No, it’s out to crush the NDP and shame Conservatives, John Ivison, April 19
I am a 70-year-old Canadian, generally regarded as both politically and financially astute, and I have historically considered political parties, never mind their differences, to have the best interests of Canada in mind.
But with Monday’s mindless and astonishingly left-wing oriented budget presentation, I am shocked at the ineptitude and callous disregard for the financial health of our nation from this current Liberal gang of ideological miscreants.
The endless and ongoing scandals of Trudeau the Younger are shocking but Liberal voters seem to be oblivious to them. But who do we turn to in the current political atmosphere, as not one of the other party leaders inspires any sort of trust? Erin O’toole’s non-carbon tax is laughable even to a Grade 6 student. The NDP and Green parties have zero regard to any sort of balanced budgets and both, after thinking that we can tax the wealthy into oblivion, along with the Red Liberals, have subscribed to the current mantra of Modern Monetary Theory, which believes that spending is only a debit on the national balance sheet.
We, as moderate and fiscally responsible Canadians, have lost our minds!
Please, let’s put a responsible adult in charge. Richard Stonehouse, Delta, B.C.
Monday’s budget is firmly grounded in the concept that a nation can tax and borrow its way to prosperity. Missing from those 724 pages is a single citation where that has worked before. John P.A. Budreski, Vancouver