Canadians must beware of sneaky politicians bribing them with their own money

Imagine that, instead of pulling presents from the bottom of a magical, bottomless sack, Santa Claus stole into your house in the dead of night, raided your gift closet and put what he found there under the Christmas tree. You wouldn’t feel too kindly toward the jolly old elf, would you? In fact, you might regard him as a rotten old sneak.Voters should view the latest attempts to bribe them with their own money with the same skeptical eye. The money that politicians are conjuring to produce all these pre-election goodies has to come from somewhere. Sooner or later, we will have to pay for them, either through higher taxes or poorer services.