Editor:
MLA Nicholas Simons is petitioning his NDP government to include our Sunshine Coast within the Lower Mainland’s foreign buyers tax boundary. Under Mr. Simons’ plan, assuming the cost of the tax would be folded into the purchase price, money that would normally have gone to homeowners would now go to his NDP government. An NDP politician in favour of a new tax; nothing new there.
Career politicians like Mr. Simons seem to think they know what’s best for us, that they can spend our money better than we can and that in matters from morality to monetary, we masses need the guidance of big government. In my time at SFU, a breeding ground for big government interventionist lunacy, I learned to agree with Thoreau when he said, “If a government man came to my front door to do me good, I’d run out the back door.”
Our government deficit-spends like drunken sailors. We don’t need yet another new tax. A prudent, cost-efficient manager of a coffee shop is better qualified to run our finances. No Sunshine Coast family or small business could ever manage their finances this ridiculously, without landing in debtors’ prison in a barrel with shoulder straps.
Maybe it’s nothing for Mr. Simons with his plush MLA pension, but for everyone else – please, Mr. Simons, not another tax.
David Rogers, Sechelt
