Columnist Richard Martineau is very happy to see that 75% of respondents to a recent Léger survey say they do not get enough for the money paid in taxes to the government.
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During his comment on the show “Le Québec Matin”, Mr. Martineau believes that the government must be more efficient in its management of public funds.
“I’m so happy with this poll,” he said. It’s not because they don’t like paying taxes, he adds. If when you have a health problem, you have to go to the private sector, after having paid taxes for the public all your life, that doesn’t make damned common sense.”
“We realize that it is not a money problem, we are putting a lot of money into the health system and our public services. It’s how that money is spent, how it’s managed.”
The columnist compares the government’s situation with that of a citizen who must reduce his spending when it does not come within his budget.
“If your swimming pool is leaky, you will never fill it,” he illustrates. You can put in millions and millions and millions. There people say, can you manage our money responsibly?
See Richard Martineau’s full column in the video above
