Ford fakes deficit concerns to justify brutal spending cuts | rabble.ca
He insists he has no choice, that the Ontario’s mounting deficits
force him to cut the province’s budgets for health care, education,
child care, libraries, legal aid, student loans, flood control, tree
planting and anything else that moves, grows or matters in our lives. (A
similar claim of necessity was made by the debt-plagued New Zealand
government in the 1990s when it ordered the shooting of a newborn hippo
at the zoo, explaining it couldn’t afford to expand the pen.)
force him to cut the province’s budgets for health care, education,
child care, libraries, legal aid, student loans, flood control, tree
planting and anything else that moves, grows or matters in our lives. (A
similar claim of necessity was made by the debt-plagued New Zealand
government in the 1990s when it ordered the shooting of a newborn hippo
at the zoo, explaining it couldn’t afford to expand the pen.)
Nevertheless, preventing debt from spiralling out of control sounds
like a plausible explanation for Ford’s spending cuts – until one
notices his tax cuts. That’s when it becomes clear the premier is, well,
lying.
Let’s not forget that a deficit is simply the shortfall in the
province’s budget – and it can be the result of too much spending or
too little revenue.