Dear Editor:
An open letter to B.C.'s Minister of Finance Mike de Jong: I am writing to express my disappointment in the Liberal's financial policy.I do not wish to live and work in the province with the lowest tax rate; I wish to live and work in a province where the general standard of living and quality of life is high. This means wellfunded public education, health care and social supports. These things are expensive; I realize this, and I am very willing to pay more of my taxes to have them available to me.As a percentage of the provincial budget, education has decreased from over 20 per cent at the beginning of the Liberal's turn in power to, according to your office, 13.5 per cent this year. This does not indicate, contrary to Ms. Clark's comments, that education is a priority for your government.Please reallocate some of that money back into public education. I suggest from corporate subsidies. Or raise the tax rate ... it will work out to a few dollars a month for businesses and citizens.On a day-to-day basis, we won't notice it in our bank balances, but we will in our daily quality of life.
Jennifer Slack
North Vancouver
