Posted on 05/27/2004 5:50:44 AM PDT by balk
Online Petition
To Premier Dalton McGuinty:
On the 11th of September 2003 you signed a pledge to uphold the Taxpayers’ Protection and Balanced Budget Act if your party formed the next government of Ontario. You specifically promised to:
“Not raise taxes or implement new taxes without the explicit consent of Ontario voters; and Not run deficits.”
Since then, you have broken both of these promises. Your budget of May 18, 2004 has increased taxes, imposed new taxes, and will run this province further into the red for years to come. You also plan to gut the Taxpayer Protection and Balanced Budget Act, removing the only legal protection taxpayers currently enjoy against tax-happy governments.
Mr. Premier, you have failed to respect the will of the people who elected you. You have lost the trust Ontarians placed in you to safeguard their hard-earned tax dollars.
We, the undersigned taxpayers, call on the government of Ontario to repeal these taxes and not raise them again without consultation, not run deficits, and uphold the Taxpayer Protection and Balanced Budget Act.
Spread the word. Send this link to everyone on your email address book: http://www.taxpayer.com/ON_Honour_the_pledge.htm
There is nothing more expensive than "free" government run health care...
I got enough to do worrying about America; don't expect me to get my panties in a bunch over an Ontario tax hike. Even though they will take my money in this grab - they can't touch my country. Thank God.
Ontarians wanted a Liberal Party government. What else did they really expect? Besides, all those entitlement programs have to be paid for. If Ontario's taxpayers think they've been betrayed by their provincial government, they can wait til the next election.
I'm sorry to say, but if the previous Conservative gov't hadn't been such a bunch of lying sleazebags, they might still be in power.
The cut-rate 407 sell-off, the not well thought-out hydro privitization, the budget presented at the parts plant, the lack of movement on the deficit, and many more are reasons that they were well disliked.
Do what you promise and don't do controversial things that you have no mandate from the electorate for.
Of course, there's no chance of the Liberals doing most of the stuff they promised either. Some of their promises I hope they won't keep. Let's see, the province is already short on generating capacity and buying it from the open market is expensive, so we should shut down the coal burning plants that constitute over a quarter of Ontario's generating capacity? Riiiiight.
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