By StaffFebruary 21st, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
Via Twitter she said: “Taxes are a good thing”- how much is the concern.
This didn’t come up during the debate at Port Nelson United Church earlier this week
In a Tweet (call it an X if you must)@AndreaGrebenc said:
Spoke to a friend who lives in California who recently had ankle surgery.
The surgery cost $33K …and not all the bills are in yet.
No wonder people go broke or are miserable or sick inthe US.
Taxes are a good thing!
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I pay for private supplemental benefit insurance and much prefer using private healthcare clinics; it’s all about me I’m afraid not the greater good, that I leave to the young.
Taxes are necessary but it is important to ask whether we are getting good value for the taxes. With healthcare, nothing is free–for middle-income and higher taxpayers, the taxes paid for healthcare are significant. But these are not the only costs that residents of Ontario face–the delays in waiting for treatment can be very significant and so are the costs–pain & suffering, reduced quality of life, lost employment income and in extreme cases, loss of life. Interesting to note that those medical systems, primarily in Europe, that provide the option of public or private care consistently rate higher than Canada in the delivery of medical services. And for those Ontarians who are opposed to the so-called “two-tier” medical care, it actually exists. Affluent Ontarians can leave the province for care in the United States or Europe and the well-connected do not wait in lineups like the rest of us.