Editorial: The premier' s economic advisor assures her that with the elimination of wasteful spending the goal of reducing taxes while not significantly decreasing government services can be met  But the premier should not listen to this advisor, who in his youth was convicted of embezzlement
Surely his economic advice is as untrustworthy as he is himself, and so the premier should discard any hope of reducing taxes without a significant decrease in government services
trying to win support for a proposal by playing on people's fears of what could happen otherwise