Posted on 12/20/2015 4:19:03 PM PST by mkleesma
Would you donate your tax refund or write a cheque to defray Ontario’s $298.9 billion net debt? Don’t laugh. It happens. Think back 19 years. Former premier Mike Harris, a Progressive Conservative, created the Ontario Opportunities Fund to pay down debt that skyrocketed through five years of NDP rule under his predecessor Bob Rae, while a recession ravaged the province. So far, the fund has raised $2.8 million. “It’s an unusual thing for someone to do, but I would encourage any Ontarian who wants to make a contribution to feel free to do so,†said Deb Matthews, deputy premier to Kathleen Wynne and chair of the government’s treasury board. The latter job puts Matthews in the hot seat, along with Finance Minister Charles Sousa, making sure the annual deficit that hit $10.3 billion last year is eliminated as promised before the next provincial election in 2018. Last year, 1,461 Ontarians forked over a total of $135,289 by ticking a box on their tax return or sending cheques. “It’s not even a rounding fraction,†said Progressive Conservative MPP Vic Fedeli (Nipissing), a frequent critic of the provincial debt load that has made interest the government’s third biggest expense after health care and education.
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“Goldberg would love to do it.”
The citizens forking out above and beyond their tax obligations would be like giving extra money to a spoiled brat that mindlessly blows whatever he gets without any respect to the givers.
A former Mayor of York, Pennsylvania, made national news about 15 years ago when he asked residents and visitors alike to donate the cost of a McDonald’s Happy Meal—$3.32 back then—to reduce that city’s deficit.
I live in Ontario, and I would really like to help out the leftist, lesbo Premier. McGinty wasn’t bad enough. She’s worse. Anything I can do. /s
They’ll take whatever is raised, spend it on giveaway programs to buy votes, and leave the debt even bigger than it was.
It’s bad enough you have the Leafs; the Wynn government is a gratuitous humiliation.
I, for one, have totally stopped hating on Toronto.
I, for one, will never stop hating on Toronto.
I’m mellowing in old age.
Hell, by the time I hit ninety, I might stop hating on Trudeau pere!
Move!
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