Every day for the last several years we have been subjected to "liberals"
bleating against tax cutting by so-called right wing governments in North
America. But in reality no real tax cuts have taken place, by Ronald
Reagan, George
Bush, Ontario Canada's Premier Mike Harris or anyone else. Any tax cuts
made
have been transitory, negligible and meaningless as statistic prove.

Such statistics are presented by Financial Post columnist Terence

in an essay titled "The era that wasn't". The left is now gloating in
Canada that "the era of
tax cuts is now over". But Corcoran shows a graph titled "Find the Tax
Cuts" which shows
that in 2002 all levels of government (municipal, provincial and
federal) in Canada spent $15,082
per person, or $60,328 for a family of four. In 1967, however, the
amount was just
$22,720. The situation, no doubt, would be very similar in the U.S. over
this period.

Corcoran continues that in truth, government tax collection and
spending rarely missed a growth
beat over the last 10 years. In real constant dollars, undistorted by
inflation, all levels of government,
federal, provincial (or state in US ) and towns have raised taxes
substantially. There were a few blips, but
these can be traced to general economic trends.

But are we any better off for this tremendous growth in government
spending? Corcoran write
sarcastically, "But what a hellish time that would have been for that
family living with only a $22,720 tax burden in 1967. Imagine
struggling through that grueling years of [Canada's] Centennial
celebrations and the hopelessness
that must have marked Montreal's Expo '67. What stories they would tell,
had today's families
lived through those bleak years when governments took so much less in
taxation. Homelessness
must have been rampant . Housing certainly would have been in perpetual,
chronic shortage,
especially in an era before rent controls. Government-funded child care?
Forget it. Hundreds of thousands
of children probably roamed the streets of our cities, poor urchins
scrounging for food with no schools
or health care...Water supply? Probably poisoned for lack of
bureaucratic oversight. Certainly no roads,
or hospitals, or schools could have been built"...If $60,328 isn't
enough today, then $22,720 (again in
equalized buying power) must have been grossly inadequate 35 year ago.
Where has the $40,000
increase in government spending gone? That's the question that needs an
answer".

"Liberal" quack economist Paul Krugman blames all our present problems
on tax cuts. (Can you believe this?)
He recently wrote about the Tax-Cut Con, in which he accused advocates
of tax cuts of being "relentless,
even fanatical ". If tax cutters are fanatical, it's because they (as
losers) are constantly being portrayed
as winners by idiots like Krugman in a battle that never took place.