It's been about 15 years now that "tax" has been a dirty word. The attitude was inherited from the Americans who have managed to parlay low taxes into massive federal deficits and municipalities that can no longer afford police and fire service - Yes, there are plenty of US towns where your house will burn to the ground unnecessarily or you're on your own if you are attacked in your home or on the street. Canadians nowadays want services without paying for them in the same way that we have grown accustomed to buying all our goods from, China, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia and Mexico. Then we wonder where our jobs have gone! To be fair, governments' kowtowing to corporations on globalization has made things far worse.