Opportunities for four lanes and tunnelling the TransCanada have been repeatedly sacrificed to government spending best described as “impulse buying” — popular in political minds now, but of little lasting value.
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Political messiah-worship can be disastrous because it is difficult to dislodge an autocrat once in power.
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“Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.” But one cannot extrapolate from that to an assumption that ever-higher taxes equal ever-more civilization.
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Switzerland is a good example of how referendums organically promote a more engaged public. The Swiss have voted on matters ranging from EU membership to minimum wages to abolishing the army.
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100 years ago, the politicians of the day were actually reluctant to impose new taxes except in the most extreme circumstances: war.
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To promise a certain pension amount decades out assumes the actuarial wisdom of a deity.
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Science and medicine are not “alternative,” “conventional” or “Western,” any more than gravity can be described as European or Chinese.
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Consider Britain’s greatest accomplishment in the field of freedom: Abolishing slavery at home, then in its empire (as of 1833) and battling slavery elsewhere
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