Dear Editor,
Poverty in Canada and in many areas of the world in an engineered process. It is not a requirement, it’s a process. Food banks, people freezing in dumpsters, it’s all engineered. It happens by all levels of government and it is done so knowingly by economists and finance ministers.
Recently (Premier) Redford took lottery money, a revenue source that is taken from the addiction of the statistically proven less wealthy and it’s used to finance the hobby of the most wealthy. Now taxes will be raised and services cut. The most vulnerable will be affected the most.
Municipal governments do the same thing when they hide increased taxes in user fees. They raise the fixed costs of water and sewer and garbage but they don’t balance it by an increase in the cost of consumption. The poor don’t fill their swimming pools or hot tubs, they boil spaghetti and take showers but they pay the same fixed costs for using much less services. In effect they subsidize the rich by paying a higher unit cost and use much less.
The federal government uses the banking rules to ensure the least stable pay the highest costs for the use of credit. The federal government is the greatest creator of bankruptcy in Canada as it causes over 80 per cent of personal bankruptcies.
Please understand that this is engineering futility and it affects everybody. Futility causes so many social disorders and in reality nobody is safe from its affects. Random attacks, road rages, society stress. People trying to survive in a hostile system that is against them.
Recently town council passed a budget to pay for the monster town hall, the $14,000 tourism phone booth, the $90,000 in wages for the two kids to sit in the booth for three months and is now planning on a multi-million dollar recreation center.
There is a list in town office of the people who could not pay their taxes and their homes may be sold. My personal monthly costs of living and paying for my home in town have increased almost 400 per cent in 15 years.
I moved to Sylvan Lake to escape high living costs when my home in the Devon area skyrocketed to almost $6,000 a year because of a new recreation center they built in Parkland County.
I have asked town council not to build the center unless they can prove it’s self sufficient and does not require taxation support. It can be done if it’s done properly.
I also hope people that care about lake access for the future support Lacombe County’s efforts to keep the existing Half Moon Bay access open and improve it. Please help to keep the lake public.
Lyle Dressler,
Sylvan Lake