How Big Is Taylor's Heart?
Finance Minister Carole Taylor: legacy?
Share that $4.1 billion surplus with poor kids.
By Steve Kerstetter
July 23, 2007
TheTyee.ca

B.C. Finance Minister Carole Taylor is approaching her political moment of truth with the provincial government's whopping $4.1 billion surplus this past year and more to come in the years ahead.

Taylor could take the easy way out -- tax cuts, debt repayment, infrastructure or spending on only the most popular government programs -- and eventually retire from politics with a legacy that is totally unoriginal and easily forgotten.

Or she could decide to make a real difference in the lives of low-income British Columbians by leading the charge against B.C.'s truly shameful record on poverty.

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