The "Burden" Of Equalization

Ontario Premier Dalton McGinty is upset with Ottawa. You see he claims his province is unfairly burdened by the Federal Governments Equalization scheme. It seems Ontario's budgetary debt has suddenly risen to over 6 billion annually, shocking indeed. Now Mr McGinty's seems unwilling to deal with this problem, by either cutting back OR raising taxes because, well because its everyone else's fault. You see he feels the debt wouldn't be there, if only Ontarians didn't have to support the rest of Canada. Thats right Ontario, by the sweat of its brow is propping up all those lazy bastards in the rest of Canada. Who new?

Now if Mr McGinty has problems now, think how bad they would be if not for the fact of the tens of thousands of FEDERAL employees who live and work in his province.You see he fails to mention anything about that, perhaps he thinks its his god given right to hoard all those Federal employees, each of which pays substantial taxes into Ontario provincial government coffers.

I tell you what Mr McGinty. I live in one of those provinces that benefits from equalization benefits. You give us all the federal employees in Ottawa, and we will give up our equalization, if fact we might even throw a little back into the kitty. We could pay you some equalization, and we wouldn't even complain.