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Plenty of cults exist - every cult has its 'religious dogma', its idols, its 'prophets', its 'science', its 'proof' and its intolerant liturgy of demands. Cults everywhere: Corona, 'The Science' or Scientism, Islam, the State, the cult of Gender Fascism, Marxism, Darwin and Evolution, Globaloneywarming, Changing Climate, Abortion...
Tempus Fugit Memento Mori - Time Flies Remember Death
It is quite apparent that the Federal Government is corrupt - the $250 million sponsorship scandal is just one example of many [HRDC, Gun Registry, Corporate Welfare, Regional Programs, Kyoto…] of where government’s and their allies and paid supporters ride high off the public spending hog. If anyone needs to be reminded that big government IS the problem, then the current fracas involving the Chretien - Martin regime should be rather a poignant example of what is wrong in Canada.
Martin and his government are responsible as is Chretien and his minister’s for the wastage of taxpayer money on a variety of projects during the past 10 years. This is not only to blame the Liberals, Mulroney was hardly a paragon of honesty, spending reduction or tax reduction either. What then to do ?
First we should face the facts that government in Canada as Tony Clement recently stated is just too massive. According to Jack Mintz who is one of the foremost and eloquent critics of Canada’s high taxation regime - Government’s take 43 % of our GDP in taxes, transfers, user fees, resource royalties, deficit spending, crown corporation spending and municipal spending. This is crippling. Most economists state unequivocally that government transfers above 30 % of GDP hamper economic growth and wealth creation and actually on a marginal basis destroy more wealth then they create. This is especially relevant when you compare Canada " with no military system, little border controls and a woeful immigration system, free riding off the US " has 7 % more of GDP under government control than the US which has 35 % of GDP under government control.
Normalise for Canada’s free riding off the US military and we would " with normal military spend, border controls and security spend " have well over 46 % of our GDP under government control.
When your major trading partner and competitor has only about 35 % of its GDP under Government control the difference is staggering leading to wealth destruction in Canada and more perniciously a whole philosophy of self justification for WHY government must control so much of our economic and social affairs. This philosophy with no basis in historical empiricism or realistic assessment of reality is called Post Modernism. It is elitist, judicially biased and prone to historical revisionism. It is also morally and economically bankrupt.
Mintz in recent National Post articles has evinced some important points. We can list them here and summarise his observations
As Jack Mintz states, "Economic studies have shown the taxes that have the most harmful economic effects are those on income and investments."
Not only are Canada’s tax rates out of line with our spending needs, our service needs or our competitive needs, they do not even address our free riding off the US military and drug industries nor the structure of our tax system which punishes work, savings and investments.
Who in Ottawa, Toronto, or City Hall has addressed these concerns ?
Certainly not Martin, McGuinty or Miller.
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