Freedom Flyer 23

The reason we call something a tax is precisely because it is unfair. Unlike a normal payment for services received, taxes are an arbitrary financial burden forced upon taxpayers by governments based simply on their ability to pay and on little else. How can any economic situation where a person's cost is unrelated or grossly disproportional to the benefit he/she receives possibly be considered fair?

No matter what the commission may recommend, it has only one ultimate option in the face of our governments' uncontrollable spending, one that is fully consistent with their doctrine of socialism: Make the rich pay.

Although commission chairperson Monica Townson says its recommendations will be "based on what we hear from the public" - which, to emphasize the shallowness and superficiality of the commission's mandate, apparently may include "theatrical presentations" and "musical revues" - it is clear that she already knows what her commission will basically recommend.

Townson has already told The London Free Press that it is evident the government should rely less on "regressive" (i.e., fair) taxes and more on "progressive" (i.e., unfair) taxes that take into account people's ability to pay. She cannot have based this on "what we hear from the public," given that her commission did not even begin its hearings until Tuesday in London.

It's time for the public to realise that government-appointed "public opinion" committees and commissions are really fronts to justify plans already made by our governments. Though "making the rich pay" always sounds inviting to those who do not consider themselves "rich," the bottom line with taxes is that everybody pays - rich and poor alike.

Ontario, get ready for even more taxes.