Myths and Leprechauns

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, the little greenback loving leprechaun was laying it on extra thick yesterday. He said that if he hadn't decided to tax income trusts, the budget surplus would eventually disappear. Notwithstanding that piece of absurdly spun trash, all those magic tax cuts he is planning to buy the votes of simple people with won't help much either, will they? It's simple accounting- which is good since I'm damn simple with numbers.

You can't have it both ways Jimbo. You can't have a surplus and still decrease revenues drastically. The cash has to come from somewhere: Whether it's on the backs of the poor, sick and lame or the pockets of those who can afford it. Look at what happened when Ernie Eves tried that in Ontario: All we got was baked books and a hidden deficit lurking shyly behind the smoke and mirrors of neo-conmanship. And now, almost four years later, we are still paying for that deception.

It doesn't matter if it's now or later, Canadians will pay those taxes one way or another. Once the myth of conservative fiscal responsibility is again responsible for racking up another massive deficit by callously and irresponsibly feeding tax cuts to the savage, salivating masses, we will pay again, Jimmy. And the short-term pot-o-gold and political gains you reap from this kind of spend-by-cutting policy will toss your leprechaun ass back into opposition.