Canadian Taxpayers`Federation magazine – Summer 2010
Corporate welfare wastes your money
There truly is no government spending program more wasteful than corporate welfare. …
When first elected in 2001, [B.C. Premier] Gordon Campbell promised to eliminate government subsidies to businesses that give some companies or industries an unfair advantage over their competitors.
One of the most dangerous steps in the direction from the Christian order of liberty and equity towards Humanism’s tyranny has already been embraced by most Canadians, by default if not by design, and it`s illustrated by a story out of Manitoba as recorded below. Most of what we believe is by default rather than design because most people do not know what they believe and why over against what they do not believe and why. To reach such a place takes a great deal of hard work. This step in the direction of tyranny that has become tolerated in Canada is the abandonment of the principle of equality before the law. Sure, Canadians today, including our politicians and judges, continue to verbalize a commitment to equality before the law. It’s easy to say the words. It’s much harder to have real substance behind those words. Most Canadians today, when they talk about equality before the law actually use this rhetoric to advance an explicitly unequal agenda, the agenda of affirmative action.
Canadian governments waste billions of taxpayer dollars but, for any number of issues, some examples of this waste come across as more offensive than others. This is one of them. How can bureaucrats in a civilized country be so barren of intelligence and conscience as to fund such a pathetic project with such a large amount of money? It would appear that the concept of “professionalism” is highly over-rated in this country.
If Canadians don’t understand how the following account violates the principle of equality before the law, this is evidence of how difficult it is to see offences when you live in the midst of them. It is also a challenge to Christians to become immersed in the Bible and Biblical worldview teaching in order to be able to understand and criticize our culture effectively and responsibly.
A few months ago, we reported to you that Tax Freedom Day in Canada fell on June 5th this year.
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