Only On The Walters Post

For years, I’ve been saying it: in Canada, we’re being taxed to death. This is not a joke and not an exaggeration. You work a lifetime, sweating day after day, thinking you’re building a future. By the time the government is done dipping into your paycheck, almost three-quarters of it is gone. Gone. A lifetime’s worth of sweat is handed over to people in fancy suits who never lifted a finger to earn it.

Now, I’m not saying every government worker is like that. There are honest, hard-working employees who keep the system running. But the higher you climb, the more it looks like the suits are just skimming off the top, living off the backs of the very people they’re supposed to serve.

You spend your whole life paying these taxes, and when you die, they’re waiting for one last grab. Makes you wonder what this life is all about. Work, pay, die. They tax you when you earn it, tax you when you spend it, and tax you when you leave this world. You don’t even get to take your last dime to the grave.

And the punchline? They tell you it’s “for your benefit.” Look around: roads are crumbling, hospitals are overflowing, and families are barely holding onto their homes. Meanwhile, the government feeds itself first, with pockets deep enough to swallow everything you ever made.

This country was supposed to be about prosperity, about hard work paying off. Instead, it’s a country of tax, and we’re the fuel. The harder we work, the less we keep. And at the end, all we can do is shake our heads and ask, were we really living, or just paying to breathe?

Until the next time, keep your minds open and your stories alive. GW

Only On The Walters Post

So here we are again. We just barely crawled through the mess with the good old USA, tariffs, Trump, all that, and now our bright idea is to go knocking on China’s door? That’s not just a speed bump, that’s a straight-up pothole big enough to swallow the whole damn car.

Look... from where I sit, China isn’t the partner we ought to be cozying up with. They’ve got their fingers in every store shelf, every gadget, every piece of cheap junk that falls apart the second you bring it home. And we’re supposed to believe more trade with them is the golden ticket? No thanks.

The truth is, we’ve been selling off our backbone for decades. Instead of making things here, for our own people, we ship the work overseas because it’s “cheaper.” Cheaper for who? Sure isn’t cheaper for the family trying to make a living wage. What it really is, is cheaper for the big shots and their shareholders, all worshiping at the altar of the almighty dollar.

We don’t need more “partnerships” with countries that don’t share our values or our interests. We need partnerships with ourselves, with our workers, our farmers, our small businesses. Remember them? They’re the ones who built this country. But nah, our leaders would rather play dress-up on the world stage, pretending they’re pulling strings, while the strings are already tied around our necks.

Here’s the kicker: this isn’t about trade, it’s about control. The more we depend on imports, the less say we have over our own future. And China, of all places, is not the kind of landlord you want collecting rent.

So instead of jumping into another ring of fire, maybe it’s time we took a step back. Make it here, grow it here, build it here. Stop pretending the world owes us a deal and start remembering we can still make our own damn hammer, grow our own damn tomato, and fix our own damn tractor.

Because if we don’t, folks, the joke’s on us… and it won’t be funny.

Until the next time: Keep Your Minds Open & Your Stories Alive.
—GW, From the Desk Where I’ve Seen It All