And just how do you think they balanced that budget? Gee, I dunno, I guess we take the usurious paroll taxes like UI, (euphemistically re named EI) and its surplus of $50,000,000,000 and apply it to the federal deficit of $50,000,000,000, and bingo, balanced budget. Sure, they finally knuckled under to pressure to raise the thresholds for marginal tax rates put in place by the Mulroney government that lead to bracket creep, but it took them 4 years to do that, long after the budget was balanced, but still didn't decrease payroll taxes. It is a shell game, the Liberals perfected it, (if they didn't themselves invent it). They weren't hard decisions, they had a majority, they ran the country like a dictatorship, the only effective opposition was within their own ranks. Don't you get it yet? We pay over half of our income to the government, if you don't think that is wrong there is just no hope for you.