Hurrah for Elmer Thiessen!

One Final Remark on the article in "The Record" entitled "What are the issues?" Hurrah for Elmer Thiessen! With reference to budgets & taxes he says: "Ultimately budgets make an ethical statement. We need to talk about the ethics underlying any budget and its supporting tax base." All programs cost money, & cutting programs & taxes cost money also. Tax cuts cost money too, but who pays for these, "the rich" or "the rest of us" (to use the language of one key study on the widening wealth gap)?

For me, taxes must be progressive, that is, fall most heavily on those most able to pay. And these monies should be raised to close the wealth gap via the provision of "people & community-building programs" & not to line the pockets of the super-rich & their corporations. In this campaign, spending, taxes & budgets will be a high priority for me in terms of an ethics that underscores human need & not cororate greed.





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