"Tax cuts! Tax cuts! Tax cuts!" is a common chant among those morally superior attendees at a recent Unite the Right conference who gathered some eleven hundred plus of their members, just before casting over fifteen hundred votes in their first ballot. These breast-beating apologists for right-wing tenets insist that government must introduce tax cuts, now that that they've wrestled the deficit to the ground.

There's almost no common ground in our thinking, and while indeed our agreement on this issue is in name only, I must admit I like the sound of tax cuts. Don't misunderstand; I'm not talking their kind of "give back to us poor suffering rich folks" notion. No, I'm talking about cutting a whole different type of taxes.

I'm talking about cutting the kind of tax that makes people think it's perfectly sensible to suggest they should be able to "just pay a little more" to get the health care they've already paid for, but been robbed of by fund-switching wizards in treasury accounting. I'm talking about reducing the kind of taxes that require school districts to cut personnel they can clearly see are needed for keeping schools clean and maintained, keeping their special needs students cared for in a manner where their needs don't disrupt classroom flow. I'm talking about cutting the kind of tax that keeps federal dollars from flowing back to provincial coffers while the federal government continues to assume control of programmes to which they no longer contribute.

I'm talking about cutting the tax of large, planned-for workforce unemployment. These same taxes cut into the wages of working people under the guise of providing them and their fellow workers a cushion lest they find themselves among the planned-for unemployed, while denying them access to this cushion and claiming the money as a general "budget surplus."

These are indeed taxes not only on the pocketbooks of working people, but on the peace of mind, and the hearts and souls of these people. These are taxes on the beliefs of everyday Canadians in their system of government. Only by my definitions would I agree with the sharp-tongued people of the right. Here and now, it is definitely time for tax cuts.