Confessions of a Shiftless Mind

Mr. Martin:

Canadians DON’T WANT GOVERNMENT RAISING THEIR KIDS! Can you get the message please? We want tax relief so we can afford to raise our own kids! Preserve the family! Support the family! Let kids be kids instead of wards of the state! Let parents love them and raise them!

Universal child care will bankrupt the system and destroy our children. You can’t make a system work that pays people to look after kids. It will bankrupt the system. Society can’t afford to pay parents to raise their children - how can it afford to collect taxes, calculate and process taxes, reallocate taxes to child care, then pay for buildings and salaries for workers for child care, then pay for regulation of the industry? It won’t work.

It sounds lovely - ah, no more daycare bills. But how much lovelier if one income in a home was enough to support the whole family! Is that so unrealistic? It work for all of time… up until the last 20 years. Now, suddenly, somehow, Canadians have got it into their head that the nannies and minding that only the rich could afford is their right and privelege. It is not a right to be rich, or to act rich! You have to EARN such things, and for a government to promise such things FOR FREE knowing that we will have to pay for them by watching the government suck every penny out of our wallets, is just wrong.

Wake up, Canada.