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To hear Premier Kathleen Wynne tell it, Ontario taxpayers can have all sorts of free or inexpensive election goodies — daycare, prescription drugs, college and university tuition, lower electricity rates — simply by putting it all on the taxpayers’ dime.

Because that’s what reckless government spending and runaway deficits and debt do.

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They represent future tax increases and, ironically, future cuts to public services.

Irresponsibly driving up public debt — as opposed to using it strategically to pay for needed infrastructure such as highways and public transit in the same way you take out a mortgage to buy a house — doesn’t just fob off today’s bills to our children and grandchildren.

The Liberals’ record deluge of red ink has already significantly damaged Ontario’s economy.

It’s also the reason for broken Liberal election promises in the past, just as I believe Wynne will break many of the promises she’s making today if she wins on June 7.