It has been said before but it bares repeating. This time from Ottawa Sun columnist (and radio host) Michael Harris.
...While the country is dying at the gas pumps, the Liberals refuse to soften the shock of running a car by admitting to acts of highway robbery. Why does Ottawa charge GST on the full pump price, gasoline taxes included, when that is obviously a tax on a tax? Why are we still paying a deficit reduction tax of 1.5c at the pumps, when the deficit was retired seven years ago? And why is Mr. Martin raking in $4.5 billion in federal gasoline and diesel taxes, exclusive of GST, and returning a paltry 7.2% of that money to the provinces for road and highway development?
And in the darker areas of the abyss of our sorry national politics, what can one say? Why have we all apparently forgotten that the Liberals managed to lose track of a billion dollars of our tax money in HRDC? Why has the gun registry, and another blown billion dollars plus, become less important than niggling about Stephen Harper's makeover? And when will Paul Martin's convenient memory lapses on matters from this country's tainted blood fiasco to the ad sponsorship scandal take on more importance than the Opposition leader's wardrobe?
But it is not just "us". Why are media types (I am thinking about you Gloria Galloway) so laser focused on the apparent failings of MP Stephen Harper but another example of Government waste and/or possible corruption elicits a ho-hum response?
I think a little priority check is in order.
