I love when right-wingers throw around terms like "tax grabber" as if McGuinty sits gleefully in his office cackling about all the taxes he's managing to collect. It's not like he personally benefits from any of this. It would be much easier for him to just slash taxes and run up the deficit. He'd probably soar in the polls. The health premium was the single most wrenching decision he had to make, but he was faced with an unexpectedly enormous deficit and unless he wanted to cut even more than Harris had, he had to do something. Besides, our taxes are still a fraction of what they were in the 80s, and weren't we oh-so-suffering back then. People have been trained since the Reagan era to demand ever-improving services and ever-dropping taxes. It is an incredibly difficult job for a politician to balance the two, and I think McGuinty has been doing a remarkable job.