Your article "Don Mills candidates come out fighting"(Aug.8/90) was very interesting but I found it a bit short. You did cover the patronage parties very well. Two of the candidates are in favor of big government and higher taxes while the third is in favor of big government and our current level of taxation.
Ontario has the highest level of taxation in the country. Governments take more than half a person's income. Tax freedom day is July 5. This is the first day of the year you get to keep your income, everything before that goes to some level of government. In 1984, tax freedom day was May 24. The Liberals and NDP had a big hand in advancing tax freedom day by 42 days. It is no wonder rents seem high and people are having trouble making ends meet. Governments take half their money.
The recent changes in Eastern Europe have allowed the ordinary person to see the results of big government when taken to its logical conclusion. What Ontario needs is a return of individual freedom. Government will shrink. Government employees will get jobs producing wealth rather than destroying it. Tax freedom day will be moved back and back instead of ahead and ahead.
Only by returning to individual freedom can we meet the challenges ahead. Only by shrinking our glutted governments can we find prosperity.
David Pengelly
Freedom Party candidate in Don Mills
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last updated on April 28, 2002
