Jim Travers: Being Canadian means taking ownership of Canada

Jim Travers in the Toronto Star.

"What’s astonishing is how much is being sacrificed for so little political advantage. Information essential to planning everything from national services to local transportation were tossed away to please a splinter minority encouraged to mistake its collection as yet another threatening manifestation of big government’s Big Brother curiosity.

"So it is that we plunge into a new year in politics full of hope. Escaping shackling deficits requires no painful collective choices, just a tug or two on fat-cat bureaucrat belts. Cutting corporate taxes will somehow trickle down into jobs and productivity. Building super-prisons will make safe streets safer as surely as the threat of merciless retribution will end crimes of passion and desperation."

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Jim Travers is talking about Canada, but this is a general Western problem: I cannot understand why people in this country and the one to the south of us expect to keep on getting the same services when they also want tax cuts - or, like the rich, at least tax cuts for themselves.