If you want top-quality education, top-quality roads, then that costs upfront. Yes, it pays off in the long run, but it means having a tax increase in the short term. Everyone wants top quality services, but nobody wants to invest in them.

When's the last time you lobbied your councillor to increase your municipal tax in order to spend a little more on better quality paving? It exists - look at many European countries with similar freeze-thaw cycles to ours. Their roads are in much better shape!

When's the last time you lobbied your MPP to increase your taxes to pay for better quality education?

We can have better things, but the idea that "innefficient bureaucracies" are the reason we don't have them is false. Yes, I agree their is government waste, but there will always be, and eliminating that isn't nearly enough to pay for what we want.