Newspaper Clipping: It’s the FINAL corporate tax cut, eh?

“Prime Minister Stephen Harper boasted Friday about the country's job creation record under his government's stewardship and warned opposition parties that more corporate tax cuts are vital to keep the economy growing.” (Jan. 8, Timmins Press)

So begins a recent news clip that sends a warning to all those who work in, or appreciate having, a healthy public sector in Canada.

We have a PM who crows about jobs even though most are part-time and some economists are fretting that our job creation is very problematic and “less than optimal.”


["PM Harper is giving it away."]

We have a Conservative government that will crow to the end that more corporate tax cuts are vital while not saying one word about the attack from all sides our public sector is experiencing.

Though Harper will argue “that it is vital that the last of an annual series of corporate tax cuts be allowed to proceed” (on Jan. 1, the corporate tax rate fell to 16.5% from 18% and next year the rate is scheduled to fall further to 15%) you have to ask yourself the following:

If national debt is growing faster than we can rein it in...

if household debt is higher than ever...

if several provinces can’t pay their bills...

if conservative and corporate editorialists are saying, “We must get our (public) spending under control... we cannot continue to fund costly programs such as all-day kindergarten when we can’t afford them... we must get civil service salaries and lavish pensions under control... we must get public sector pay hikes under control - now - (because) they are ticking time bombs...” (Dec. 28, London Free Press)

then where will PM Harper get the money to replace corporate taxes?

Won’t he need to replace even more money if a further cut in corporate taxes is on Harper’s agenda?

How will he raise the Conservative government’s first payment ever toward our country’s record setting $600 billion national debt?

If you’re an average citizen, go look in the mirror.

Then hide your wallet.

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The public sector is under attack. Why?

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