In part, it is because the public now demands this and perpetuates the cycle... Add in some remarkably stupid politicians that simply want to get elected and are willing to keep us on the road to rack and ruin and voila, the cycle lives on to sting yet another generation of Canadians that will be paying off debt that you and I demanded.
This is one reason that guys like Ralph Klein were so hugely popular back in the day... He forced the public in this prov to swallow the pills that should have been done earlier... Everyone, and I mean everyone took it on the chin, but in a reasonably short time, people could see the merits of those decisions and were able to rebuild and move forward
You'll notice that I never mentioned any portfolio, department, etc in my earlier commentary. The bottom line is that any society should live within it's means rather than beyond it... Trying to solve any societal problem by burying it in cash is no solution at all, and if you think that the issue is dire today, look ahead 10 or 20 years when there is little or no opportunity to access debt (as a nation) to fund endless entitlements.
The wheels will fall off and the train will come to a screeching halt... That is when the real pain in the lower income demographic will be at a critical level
I will say this though and point to France as an example.... Hollande (Fr President) has passed new taxation rules that seek to have a marginal tax rate of 75% on any income over 1 million Euros... This is a governmental, knee-jerk reaction that seeks to raise tax revenues (to fund society) at the expense of a select few.
The reaction has been predictable (I'm sure you can guess) and the people that are impacted the hardest and are suffering the most because of this policy (think sharing)? Yep, you guessed it, the poorest in society
