Current Parliament and WWII Parlaiment fiscal cowards?

Quote: Originally Posted by darkbeaver

Better still let's show true moral leadership and refuse to fight this immoral war.

Quote: Originally Posted by Machjo

In WWII, the Canadian Federal Government, while enthusiastic about heading off to war, lacked the moral fortitude to raise taxes as required to fight it. Indeed it did raise taxes, but not enough to cover the costs of the war, thus putting itself in the red big time. Essentially, it just lacked the backbone to be honest with the Caandian population and raise taxes as needed to pay for the war so as to let Canadians not just know, but feel the real cost of the war.

Seeing that Canada is going into the red again, always making war an excuse, isn't it essentially revealing the same cowardly lack of backbone its WWII counterparts exhibited?

If we want to go to war, fine, but let's at least show the moral leadership necessary to raise the taxes to pay for this war. It would seem our current government would rather fight the war and let us know the real costs later. heck, even the military has declared the real cost of the war secret for national security reasons... from our elected officials! And the government defends it!

On top of what Pegger said, So much for fiscal conservatism.