Dalton "I will not raise your taxes" McGuinty

Has anyone out there been keeping a running tally of new taxes or tax increases levied by Dalton McGuinty since his election in 2003? I am assuming that the majority of his tax increases don't make the newspaper, so you'd probably need to do an access to information request to get that information. I recall that election campaign that brought him into office, when he repeatedly ran the "I will not raise your taxes" commercial. In his first budget after winning, he introduced massive new taxation and blamed it on a "hidden" 5.6 billion dollar deficit left behind by Ernie Eaves. So he introduced billions in new taxes, and now here we are 7 years later and Dalton is running a projected deficit of 25 billion dollars.

Interesting how you could add billions in taxes and simultaneously quadruple the deficit. How much would you have to increase spending to increase the deficit while raising taxes by that much? The answer, you need to double spending.

"Government program spending under Mr. McGuinty was $64.3 billion in 2003/04. Spending in 2010-2011 is projected to explode to $115.9 billion. This is an increase of $51.6 billion in seven years – an increase of over 80 per cent – above 11 per cent for each year of the McGuinty government."

So to the people of Ontario, how do you like all these new taxes? It is only a matter of time before you get a carbon tax; though Dalton did use the HST to crank up gas prices, which serves the same purpose. The province cannot keep this up, and Dalton will never be able to cut the spending necessary because most of it is his own pork. CUPE has him by the balls.