就为了“我们全家日常锻炼也是去参加社区的各种program，我希望政府能保存这些福利，而不是取消。”就反对减税。加拿大的税不是轻了，而是太重，这和你挣多少舍不舍得花钱有什么关系？和你是不是中产又有什么关系？一个奖懒罚勤的社会，一个公立系统为强大工会把持的社会，一个支出增长比例超出经济增长比例的社会，最终会是一个破产的社会。

本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛There is a saying, which I totally agree, that how one spend money depends on where the money comes from and what the money is spent for.

When one trying to do things for himself using his own money, he would be really careful and would always make sure that every penny is spent on worthy things. He would like to see less spending with more gaining.

When one doing things for others using his own money, he would be also very careful and he may only care how much he spends. Gaining is not important any more because it is for others.

When one doing things for himself using others’ money, he would care more gaining than spending. As long as the gaining for him is great, spending is not important any more because it is not his money.

What about government? Theoretically, government collects tax from people and uses this money back to people. They do things for others using others’ money. What can you expect? Do they care how much to spend or do they care how much to gain? Neither. Why we need to give them more money then? For something we cannot do well individually, like highways, parks, etc, we have to pay some tax to have a government to operate. It is the problem how government spends money, not the problem of lacking of money.

What is middle class? Most likely it is defined as people who have good education and professional skills, live a comfortable life, but have less social power. There are lower and upper middle class subgroups. A lot of Chinese immigrants have professional jobs, own nice houses and cars, and live a life style they like, no matter what you think, they are middle class people, period.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net

我在中国出生，直到来加拿大之前我的医疗福利都是中国给的，我的小学中学义务教育是中国给的，我的大学教育也有中国政府补贴，我带着大学本科的专业训练以及几年的工作技能来到加拿大，进门就先交900加币，之后找到工作每年贡献一万多的税金，请问加拿大出生的本地人谁从出生开始就每年贡献税金？这许许多多的技术移民，无论是找到工作的，没找到工作的，都是处于贡献高峰而依赖福利的低峰年龄，谁享受的福利要大于贡献？加拿大政府难道是傻子要引进那么多的技术移民？要说我的小孩，的却一出生就开始享受加拿大福利，并且将继续享受直到工作开始做贡献，这不也只是跟本地出生的本地人一样吗？我们的父母，如果移民来了加拿大，的确是属于只享受福利不做贡献，但你难道不知道申请父母移民要担保他们十年之内不申请政府福利？而且政府还极尽可能的拖延父母移民进程。