While not a pleasant thought, the world economy appears to be in the eye of a political storm, taking a number of bumpy years to exit to the other side. For this reason, we must hunker down and be conservatively prudent in our choice of a new government.
Increasing government debt and increasing taxes must be avoided if we are to exit the current storm reasonably successfully.
This means that any increase in debt must be for essential infrastructure purposes only, where our children and grandchildren will be paying taxes for something from which they will be benefitting: roads, bridges, transportation, etc. – elements which will benefit our ability to conduct business and employ people.
We should not be borrowing to spend our children’s future taxes on consumption such as buying votes through increasing welfare benefits, and various spending programs to help people do what they can and should be doing for themselves, etc.
The concept of child poverty is fraudulent. How can children be taken out of poverty without the rest of their family accompanying them?
The only reasonable method to help them is for the government to be business friendly to encourage investment and thus employment. Increasing taxes, regulation and consumption spending does not work. Ask Dave Barrett (1972-75), Mike Harcourt (1991-95), Glen Clark (1996-99), and Ujjal Dosanjh (2000-01), all of whom were NDP premiers and who eventually brought the province of B.C. to its economic knees and have-not status among Canada’s provinces, and were then fired for good reason.
The current Liberal government is tax and spend similar to previous NDP governments. With a strong likelihood of economic storms in our near future, we need a more conservative approach in our Legislature. Scott Anderson seems to be the best candidate for our constituency.
C. Wills
Vernon
