Print

E-mail

Text

Re: 'Sustainable solutions a must for urban centres,' Editorial, Oct. 17.

I am a 52-year-old male with two children and a great wife. My wife is a contractor with no security and I have given up looking for a job that pays anything over $15 an hour.

My wife makes barely a enough money to sustain us. We got rid of our car temporarily so I can put money to learning and building my business. I am starting to win with this after much hard work.

That sounds negative but is not only because we are eternal optimists. I have been paying for and taking courses to do with online marketing and business building for 18 or so months since my layoff. My UI ran out so I get no help from the government and don't want any. When I had a good job in the '90s I saw the writing on the wall and started to better myself through network marketing, but offline.

I am a strong conservative and believe in pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps by providing value and service to others by giving them a hand up and not a hand out. We teach people to fish, we don't just give them the fish like the government does.

So here are my questions:

"Why do we keep taxing and taking from the providers and doers?"

"What is this Marxist mentality that pervades throughout North America?"

I realize we, as business thinkers and builders, come from a different starting premise in our philosophies on almost everything and the socialist will say, as the editor does, that we need more taxes for city services.

There are now more six-figure earners in the city trough than ever before. Now there is talk from Mayor David Miller that he is going to punish people who don't recycle: more government workers that we all know won't make less than $25 hourly or so; the same as the idling police and the city workers who are way overpaid compared to their value to society

Why do so many want more government? What has to happen is government layoffs in the City of Toronto. Have you ever heard of government layoffs? It does not happen.

Let's reduce the pigs at the taxpayers' trough, then we won't need to raise taxes, which is a way for the government to control us. I am not against paying taxes for services and a social safety net. Put a limit on how long people can collect welfare.

Our family is sacrificing our lifestyle temporarily to move forward, you know, like the good old days.

The bottom line is no we don't need to raise taxes; we need to clean house in the government and cut off generational welfare.

I just made you guys at the trough millions of dollars.

Nicholas Wind