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Provincial NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has suggested, as a measure to help curb the provincial deficit while maintaining some vital services and programs, a slight increase in personal income tax paid by those who make $500,000 or more.  That works out to about $250 an hour, for those who like to harp on what public sector workers earn.

Mr McGuinty is trying his best to deflect this sensible talk, and seems uncomfortable with the fact that it’s become obvious his Corporate Tax Cut agenda is proving very unsuccessful.  Backstopped by Jack Mintz’s propoganda piece “Ontario’s Bold Move to Create Jobs and Growth”, our McGovernment has been claiming tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy will result in more income and better lives for all.  It appears it hasn’t quite worked out that way except, of course, for the corporate tax cuts.

Looming cuts to essential programs and services, from health care to education to numerous social programs, are in fact a tax on those who need those programs.  This “Reverse Robin Hood” taking from the needy to give to the rich is a perfect example of governmental attidtudes and practices that begot the Occupy Movement.  If Mr McGuinty and his Gang of Merry MPP’s can’t see the hypocrisy of their approach, perhaps it is time for another election.  Perhaps this time, in the shadow of EMD and imposed “austerity”, the people will take an interest despite being programmed to not care.