For almost the last forty years, I have heard neo-liberals declare that "the sky is falling" and threaten that, if we as a society don't introduce the sort of austerity measures that would make Augusto Pinochet look like Santa Claus, the entire society will collapse. 

Forty years later...and the sky has yet to fall. 

Forty years later, and Canada is still regarded as one of the best countries in the world in which to live. (Canada is, of course, rated far more highly than the U.S.A., a country which these same neo-liberals regard as a free market paradise.)

If only these people had the same concern for the number of children in Canada growing up in poverty that they have for  doctors and successful business people who are being asked to contribute their fair share to general tax revenues, through the closing of loopholes.

As Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said: "I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization."