The majority of Ontarians voted in a Liberal government because John Tory, the then leader of the Conservatives, was insistent on providing black-only schools. It was only about four decades ago people fought for integration with whites in a single school system, so why on earth John beat that drum is hard to understand.

Well, poor old John is no more and now that default has landed us with a Liberal government and Liberal practices: Tax and Spend. (Or is it waste?)

Their latest method of separating us from what little money is left in our wallets is using the harmonizing of the GST and PST, originally a method of easing much of the unnecessary paper work that was inflicted on business, is to extend the PST to areas where it didn't apply.

Once the added tax kicks in we will be paying about 8% more for gasoline, heating fuels and meals under four dollars. It will also raise the cost of dying. Funerals will cost an additional 8%, the box into which we will be place for burial will rise also as will the headstone we that will mark our resting place.

These Liberals have their greasy hands even in out death shrouds.

On what planet do these yahoos live? Our economy is in shambles, thousands are unemployed, incomes have vanished into thin air and, concurrently, food prices are at a all-time high. And yet they continue to squeeze the taxpayer for every cent he has but they produce no panacea for the global economic collapse that greed created.

This is the time to reduce costs and to ease the financial burden on the taxpayer. Those on pensions have watched the COL increase fall far below the actual rate of inflation and now, the average pension is about 26% below the true inflation rate

It would be O.K .if we were all treated like failed CEOs. Look at Rick Wagner, he took G.M. into virtual bankruptcy yet he was pushed out with $21,000,000.on which to starve. It appears that failure is more lucrative than success.

Bob Runciman, the interim leader of the Conservatives, is correct in his assessment of this harmonization sales tax: it shifts revenues from business taxes on to families already under financial stress, many unemployed and others on inadequate pension, pensions that cannot cover rents and food costs.

When will the time come when people elected to represent us will get their collective heads out of the trough and deal sensibly with problems?
Ken Hayward
Mono