Budget day--and don't it feel great?

Yeah, like a kick in the privates.
Listening to Greg Sorbara today, you'd think that the first budget of the McGuinty Era is a work of fiscal brilliance that will transform Ontario into Shangri-La.
Bullshit.
Oh, where to start? The FIBerals, as my beloved Toronto Sun has aptly christened them, campaigned on a promise. Well, as previously noted, 231 of them, but one stood out: "I won't raise your taxes, but I won't cut them either".
Bullshit.
There are dozens of new taxes and increased user fees in here, the biggest of which--a renewed OHIP premium--is going to cost most Ontarians between $300 and $900 a year.
I'm not some heartless bastard who thinks we should just kill off all the sick people, but c'mon. Health care now officially eats up 45% of the provincial budget. Does anybody claim to know where any of this money is actually going? Has there been any sort of cost accounting done, some sort of value-for-money study? Because if there was, I missed it. It seems to me that if one aspect of your household expenses kept going up, year after year, you'd want to, I don't know, LOOK INTO IT?
Besides, the list of stuff OHIP actually covers is inexorably shrinking. You now have to pay for eye exams. They exempted children and seniors from this, but what about people with diabetes? Or people who are slowly going blind, like me? I'm lucky my wife works in insurance and has an eviable benefit plan, or I'd have to pay for physiotherapy. OHIP doesn't cover that anymore, either.
The sin taxes took a predictable leap. Won't affect us; neither of us smokes or drinks. But that doesn't stop me from having three things to say on the subject:
1) Hello resurgent black market. Do you think they'll take the extra money to combat the reserve tobacco specials? I doubt it.
2) Our beer is already the most heavily taxed in the free world. I really don't care--to me, beer tastes like moose piss--but as Canadians, we're rather famous for our beer...and our beer consumption. Do you think this will go over well with Joe Six-Pack? I doubt it.
3) As far as I am concerned, they can hike cigarette taxes to the moon...if OHIP covers smoking cessation aids. Do you think this will ever happen? I doubt it.
Do you think Flip-Flop McFly will be re-elected in four years' time? I doubt it.