Iam often accused of being anti-tax and it is not true.
If we could figure out how to run a country with no government services at all, then I would be anti-tax. But we can’t.
Economist Milton Friedman said he tried to figure out how to run the military as a private enterprise, but couldn’t. Therefore, he said, we need the government to do it and we must accept that it will then cost a significant percentage more. That is, unfortunately, the reality of government management.
What I am against — and everyone not in government is against — is tax money being wasted.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government has instituted a hiring freeze on government departments.
Liberal finance critic, MPP Stepanie Bowman, said Ford and Treasury Board Chair Caroline Mulroney’s plan will leave us with eit