I’m pretty sure horse-face Kathleen will be put out to pasture come June, but I’m also pretty sure that Canadians will give Sock Boy another four years come 2019. I sure hope I’m wrong on the latter, because if these fools get in again, there’ll be nothing left of Canaduh. The current level of taxation in this country is obscene and it’s only going to get worse. It’s tantamount to communism.
Every spring Canadians are cranky and deserve to be. It is tax season, the snowbirds are returning to 13 per cent sales taxes, and the 2018 federal Liberal budget broke promises to pensioners and self-employed persons with holding companies.
Worse yet, Ottawa’s budget watchdog in its latest economic and fiscal outlook in April said the government lowballed deficits in February. Deficits will be $4 billion higher for the next two years, meaning that taxpayers were misled by 20 per cent or the Liberals don’t know how to count.
Another $8 billion is not a rounding error and is all the more unacceptable after the huge tax hikes imposed on the country’s higher income earners who, frankly, support the system.
The top tax Ontario rate, for those lucky enough to make a good income (or pension), has soared in Ontario from 49 per cent to 53.53 per cent since 2015 – an obscene jump of 9.2 per cent. In what universe, or nation-state, does this occur minus the excuse of a recession or a war or a calamity of some kind?