Is a public intervention needed to address our widespread government addiction problems?

As Glen Hodgson correctly pointed out recently in the National Post's  FP Comment, habitual use of any addictive substance can lead to serious consequences for the user, and by applying "exceptionally strong doses of monetary policy by the world's major central banks", the Rx has evolved from a palliative prescription to a painfully risky one. As bad as the monetary morphine problem is, folks, this is not the only domain of growing government dependency. 

OPM (as opposed to the chemical variety known as 'opium' ) - Other Peoples' Money - [aka tax receipts] has proven to be yet another relentless government addiction problem. The evidence?  - the current and unprecedented levels of public sector debt at all levels.  

This problem has been festering especially since the early 1900s, and has since multiplied and metastasized to its modern scale of 'full-blown epidemic".   Its hard for me to imagine that there was a time in Canada when income taxes were not levied. When they were forts introduced, they were proclaimed as 'temporary'. Its too bad no one thought to ask about the length of the term 'temporary' - did those political leaders think  in terms of months, years, decades or centuries? I guess we'll never know because once they left office, the issues surrounding the income tax "strain of OPM" was no longer their problem, nor has it been the problem of any of their successors who have all measured the terms of their responsibilities in chunks of  4 'temporary' years between elections.

Being Canadian, I am a compassionate man and believe that we must protect our political leaders from themselves. God forbid that Kathleen Wynne and her Red Brigade should succumb further to this swirling, viciously-addictive and fatal vortex. 

My appeal to all of you compassionate Canadians in reader-land? - let's collectively place  a politically-impregnable lock on the public purse and supply it with a feeder tube that supplies just enough OPM to meet our needs. In this way, we can protect all of our political leaders from another internationally-embarrassing, media-enabled spectacle of yet another 'partying' public servant stoned on either 'monetary morphine' or OPM.  

Are you with me on this?  Vote Libertarian in an election near you!