Ontario Fiscal Mess

Ontario is in a moral and financial mess. It is also very apparent this province is greatly polarized between rural and urban voters. Rural voters are still smarting from the Green Energy Act saw wind turbines foisted on unwilling communities.

Budget promises a made-in-Ontario pension plan that will bring in a payroll tax of almost $ 1,000 a year for corporations that will hurt.This province will almost certainly see a credit downgrade within days of a Liberal Budget passing.

We've already seen credit watches and warnings. Our debt is almost $300 billion and there's no credible plan to balance the books. Conservatives told voters by  down sizing the civil service and implement a pay freeze for two years.This is the way to go. Message fell on deaf ears.Ontario voters have no appetite to do what it to needs to do to get this province on the right financial track.

Liberal government will keep everyone on staff, won't freeze wages and still balance the books.It's an impossible dream, reality has just kicked in, they have to show us how will do that,numbers just don't add up.Something has to give. Sounds to me like higher taxes.

Still, voters had no appetite for honesty in politics.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And the truth is that this province is living beyond its means.This will only get worse over the next four years. The Liberals have been financially and morally irresponsible. And that's just fine with voters.This was a stunning Friday the 13th horror story. It's only just begun.