The NDP’S misguided agenda
The Ontario NDP needs a fiscal reality check. Its big taxand-spend agenda is largely misguided and poorly planned.
The first sign of their poor fiscal management skills was their June “tax the rich scheme” included in the previous budget. This measure is largely symbolic and unlikely to have any real impact.
The portion of the population making in excess of $500,000 is very small. Even if they were taxed to the hilt, it would make little difference in the province’s situation.
This is not to say that the wealthy pay their fair share. That may not be the case, but as far as the tax-and-spend logic is concerned, ultimately the only group large enough to foot the NDP’s bill will be the middle class, hard-working families.
With so many families already struggling with high energy costs, unemployment and over-taxation at the hands of the McGuinty Liberals, it would be a real shame to have them bear the brunt of the cost as the NDP wages war on the private sector job creators, spends recklessly, increases the size and scope of an already bloated government and puts the interests of big government sector union bosses ahead of the hard-working families of Ontario.
We need a prudent fiscal strategy that produces results, not political symbolism based on emotional rhetoric. If the NDP doesn’t understand that in this climate, I doubt it ever will.