{"id":10386,"date":"2015-04-16T00:15:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T04:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=10386"},"modified":"2015-04-16T00:15:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T04:15:59","slug":"view-from-a-taxpayers-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/view-from-a-taxpayers-hot-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"View from a taxpayers\u2019 hot seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Re: View from Queen\u2019s Park, April 10)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When you want to, temporarily, blind people, shine a very bright light in their eyes, then they will not notice the rubble behind the person shining the light.<br \/>\nSuch is Mr. Ballard&#8217;s (MPP) View from Queen&#8217;s Park.<br \/>\nWhen he states that the government was elected for its commitment to take a balanced and thoughtful approach to governing, it could not have been from a financial perspective.<br \/>\nWe are facing another over $10 billion deficit, a continuation of various previous $10 billion deficits started under Dalton McGuinty, which will accumulate by 2017-2018 into an overall debt of $235 Billion, which, with any increase in the interest rate, will become a virtual unbearable burden on the taxpayers and will gobble up a good portion of future budgets in just paying the interest.<br \/>\nA continued &#8220;apres nous le deluge&#8221; (read tsunami) is the prevailing attitude of this government; we are heading for serious financial difficulties, not to mention bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Vander Veen<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F10386&#038;t=View%20from%20a%20taxpayers%E2%80%99%20hot%20seat&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F10386&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=View%20from%20a%20taxpayers%E2%80%99%20hot%20seat\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F10386&#038;text=Like%3F\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=View%20from%20a%20taxpayers%E2%80%99%20hot%20seat&#038;body=Like%3F:%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F10386\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: View from Queen\u2019s Park, April 10) When you want to, temporarily, blind people, shine a very bright light in their eyes, then they will not notice the rubble behind the person shining the light. 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