Taps are always open for private profit at public expense: Ottawa reader

Now that so-called austerity measures and tax cuts have become normalized, governments feel comfortable in rejecting calls for social program spending, writes Morgan Duchesney.

I noticed this Toronto Sun editorial comment at the end of a Nov. 23 reader’s letter on workers’ wages: “With government, expanding constantly, and offering more and more services we cannot afford, the money has to come from somewhere.”

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