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Are you crazy? You're telling me you don't want a tax cut?
I didn't say chat. You'd be an idiecz not to want a tax cut. Buc [ want a villa in France and a new SUV

too. Real life isn’ about what you want, it’s about what you choose. Like most Canadians, I choose
decent healthcare, schools and a safe environment, over a few more bucks in my pocket.

» Those services stink these days. The hospitals, zhe schools. FU never see a public pensiox. Going
| £0 university seeans going into debt. I'd rather Lave the money so I can buy my own services.

“le sounds to me like you've been conned.

Me? Conned? No way.

First they starved high-quality schools and hospitals and other programs because they said there was
no money. Then they use that as an excuse to say they'’te lousy services and can't serve the public.
Remember when they did that to the trains — made ther: so crummy People didn’t want to use them,
then closed them because they weren't being used?

Well, if I get money back in ‘tax cuts, Lean buy my own
Services, . ; .
~ Oh, get real. What are you going to do — build your own
hospital and a med school to train doctors just for you? Or your
own private highways? Some things only get done because
~ people create them together. That's why we have governments
and taxes, .

Then bis come ro many politicians ev wild about tee cat?

_E-dontt know. Maybe they think it'll make them popular. But
* they all : say r they neéd inore money ton, they j juse don’t want to”
be the ones who collect the taxes. :

I don’t know where Stockwell Day gets his hiscory. But three of
the higher taxed’ industrial countries — Denmark, Norway and
i¢ Netherlands — all had beiter Productivity and gown in the

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and services that benefit everyone. If, li

class sizes, overcrowded emergency rooms, deteriorating roads, the water —

Hold on. You're not gonna blame the Walkerton mess on tax caste

50 per cent cuts to environment and energy, 1400 fewer staif, including inspectors. 2500 jobs cut in

research and monitoring, far fewer prosecutions and fines and inspection of water treatment plants = =
You could cali Walkerton’s water problems, “Your tax cuts at work.” -

Well somebody must like these tax cuts, because they keep coring.
Sure. Maybe it’s the richest ten percent, who rake in about 6O per cent of use cuts. And they're the

ones who can afford their own health care and education no matter how hacked up the public versions ”
get. Polls say most of us put tax cuts far down in our list of government prioric:

OK, but this is a federal election and the federcl Liberals areutt like Gutario, Theyre biz
spenders. Everybody knows that. Ty en on pnt foe pl i
Drograms coed services end thoes urplases Kae been brge ;

° ‘Then what do y you call 5 promizing big tax « cu
people ° vote ar you because of ie. a

Please consider which party. is most likely ; to’ pursue. it.