It's the Spending Stupid!

Local columnist and supporter of almost every spending plan, unless not spending enough, is now complaining about higher taxes? Gee I didn't realize she is Conservative :) Actually she is just consistent with the Conservatives, attacking taxes but increasing spending which as anyone who is caught in this detail called reality means it has to be paid for with - wait for it - higher Taxes!

A letter I sent to the Era Banner yesterday.

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For as long as I have been reading Debra Kelly's column she has supported the lavish spending plans of government, and often spoken harshly of every attempt to cut spending. Now the bill is due, and all of a sudden she complains about the bills being (only partly) paid in "No new taxes? Don't be stupid".. I'm wondering - how did she think that spending that increased by leaps and bounds each year was going to be paid for except by increasing taxes? Like the credit card bill that cannot be paid this month the problem is not the bill: it is the spending that came before. Given there will be 8 years of deficit the taxes have not even been increased enough. The people like Ms Kelly who supported the increased spending should be responsible and say yes please tax me more. I have long opposed the excessive spending, I can morally argue for lower taxes. The people who supported higher spending cannot morally do anything other than praise higher taxes otherwise they are cynically passing higher taxes on to generations not yet born to pay for their excess now.

In response to the National Post Editorial. Sorry cannot find a link to it.
Note the print version has significantly altered what I said in the last sentence - big :(
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In the editorial "The Wildrose Effect" you credit the cuts in royalties in Alberta as "at least a beginning to lead the province in the right direction". In fact as the same article points out the problem is the province is spending more per capita than any other. The last budget shows spending still rising strongly, and as conservatives everywhere from Ottawa to Washington have proven conclusively when they cut taxes while raising spending you create deficits. In fact their actions are just a reaction and a denial of the real problem. Taking the easy but less responsible road of passing the bill on to the next generations. I trust Danielle with her libertarian ideas will do better and begin to fix the problem, spending, when she takes power as conservatives clearly do not understand there is a problem.