Dear Editor,

It is time the world gets on the same page to selectively target the filthy rich who do not pay enough taxes and get too many tax write-offs while the rest of us get stiffed.

Let all nations, including Canada, adopt the "Buffet Rule" as in motion in the country south of the border.

This much-needed and long overdue fiscal plan will set a minimum tax rate for anyone making more than $1 million a year, named after billionaire Warren Buffet.

There is a downside to this new form of tax money: overpaid, shady idiots in government (if successful) will spend it like they always have, like foolish imbeciles giving away billions of our tax money to foreign lands, freeloaders who get our money while people here go without.

We cannot police or baby-sit every corrupt nation or disaster while our citizens have empty pockets: a foolish bleeding heart syndrome that will bankrupt the West.

We should help, but with tough budget restraints. Domestically, we have plant closures, massive unemployment, corrupt government agencies, doctor shortages, no dental care for 34 per cent of Canadians, and school closures, while Mr. Harper seeks his laurel in the global community at our personal expense.

Go to a soup kitchen and see longer lineups, people hunting for bargains at Value Village, food pricing soars, increased corporate greed, school kids going hungry to get an education_

Wake up, Canada. We need to protect our resources, help our law-abiding citizens in dire straits, assist impoverished first nations, stop abuses in immigration and refugees who bleed us dry, and face human smuggling with honour, not hypocrisy.

Help Canadians first, before wet-nursing others. Heavily tax the big shots in Canada, and then go after others making more than a cool $1,000,000. Do these people need Old Age Pension when they retire.

We need to curtail our wild debt and stop idiotic rogue spending like the G8 summit, Olympics, Jack Layton's state funeral (sorry, but people like First and Second World War veterans are more deserving), and fancy military jets - and pour that money into preserving fish stocks, and putting people back to work.

Kerwin Maude, Pitt Meadows