Governments are like vampires, they suck your blood, and in return you proclaim undying (HA) love for them. Governments produce nothing. Understand that? They do not produce and sell "widgets", nor any other product they can sell.
Governments suck up our tax dollars, and if we are lucky, we get some benefit from how they spend it. Benefits like roads, schools and hospitals, those are good and something we as a society need. Too often the government uses our tax dollars to buy votes. Look at how they spend your money, make a checklist, then challenge them on things you consider useless. I am talking all levels of government, municipal, provincial and federal.
As an individual, I set goals and priorities, I work to make them come true. Who sets the governments goals? Supposedly we do, but the only time most people have a say is during an election. Once every four years. So, who is controlling how our taxpayers money is spent? Special interest groups. They include immigrant groups, gay and lesbian groups, daycare groups, unions, feminists, environmentalists, First nations, etc. Everyone has their hands in the governments pocket....oh wait, that would be our pockets.
Governments suck up our hard earned dollars, and return what exactly? Municipalities blame provinces for lack of infrastructure, the provinces blame the feds for lack of funds, the feds blame provinces and municipalities for not spending the funds they give them properly, and they then, at all levels, tax us more, because we are the vampire's victims, we are the undead, that endless piggy bank the governments can tap anytime they want, and we the undead, let them. Look at the new carbon tax in BC, no protests, nothing, because we are made to feel guilty about what we are not doing as a society. A 7.5% property tax increase in Edmonton, not even a squeak.
Pollution, our fault
Wait lists, our fault
Potholes, our fault
Poverty, our fault
Homelessness, our fault
Crime, our fault
It's all our fault. Time to get the garlic and wooden stakes out. Time to get rid of the vampires, they are sucking us dry, and making us think we deserve it, because every failure is our fault, always.
3 comments:
When the government runs out off sins to tax they have to expand the list.
The first step is to demonize it.
The second step is to tax it.
The real problem in Canada is that people have far to much faith in government to solve the problems that they created in the first place.
Your list of special interest groups didn't include:
military/industrial complex
big business
oil and gas companies
banks
police
Simply an oversight? Or was the real point of the post to demonize a few groups with which you have an obvious issue?
Agreed Anon 5:53. To much faith or reliance on the government is the problem.
Anon 6:06, I'm sure the list of special interest groups is endless, those I listed were the first to pop into my head, as they are the most vocal.
I would not include the military or police as special interest groups though. One of the roles governments should play is the security of the citizens of a country. Judges and lawyers would have to be included in your list then, and that opens up a whole new can of worms.
Businesses should NOT get any special funding from governments. Yet the McGuinty government wants the federal government to save the auto industry. That is just as bad as giving special consideration to oil and gas companies etc. So, we could put ALL businesses on the list.
Remember, if a business makes a profit, it is because we have bought their product, so when a business pays taxes, they do so with our money. Individuals pay both personal and business taxes, as there is only one taxpayer.
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