I get really steamed when I hear Herr Harper and his cronies spouting the neo-con line about deficit reduction and making government more efficient. If he really wanted to reduce the deficit, he’d kill the F-35 purchase and start slashing MP’s gold-plated pensions. This article from the Daily Kos tells it like it is.
When right wing politicians talk about deficits you can be certain that they’re waging class warfare. When right wing politicians pursue economic austerity you can be certain that they’rewaging class warfare. If right wing politicians truly cared about fiscal responsibility, they would raise taxes on those who can most afford to pay more taxes and they would end corporate handouts, whether they be direct subsidies or the indirect enabling that is having the public foot the bill for environmental and other public harms incurred as part of corporate profit making. If politicians cared about balanced books they would do what’s best to grow the economy and rectify social and economic imbalances. Prosperity does not trickle down. If given the chance, it can blossom up.In the United States, the only honest fiscal solution is to end the Bush tax cuts, end foreign military adventurism, stop pretending that it’s necessary to spend more on military and ostensible national security hardware than the rest of the world combined, and end all forms of corporate subsidies. If a corporation cannot survive on its own it deserves to die. If a corporation’s survival serves some vital social or security need and it cannot survive on its own, then it should be socialized rather than publicly subsidized. After all, public subsidies to privately held corporations already are a form of socialism, it’s just that much of the money goes into private pockets rather than serving the public good.