Ontario’s NDP and Liberals are both pledging tens of billions of dollars in new spending to pay for their campaign promises, but are taking different approaches to the other side of the ledger, with the NDP proposing wealth taxes and the Liberals eyeing “efficiencies.”
Sounds like more austerity and tax cuts from the libs. They really want the cons to win I guess. Hopefully they aren’t thinking about some sort of department to oversee these efficiencies…
The concept that the liberals think they can materialise $28B out of thin air is laughable.
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If people gave a shit about where the money is coming from, Doug Ford would be tanking in the polls as he has obviously impossible to fund proposals. Whatever the parties say in their funding blurbs just serves the purpose of telling their potential voter base what’s going to happen to their taxes. In the end, the difference always comes from debt and that’s OK. So reality tells me funding proposals aren’t what wins or loses elections. The efficiencies proposal is great because it works just like it worked for Ford. It’s nebulous, it allows for saying you’re doing it while not achieving anything with it. Therefore it allows for not doing austerity in reality. Of course it also allows for austerity. It’s why I’d look at the rest of the platform details for clues on that.
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Remind me, how was Doug Ford going to pay for that $100 billion highway?
By cutting healthcare and extensively fining anyone who owns a bicycle.
Gutting and stripping every single public service and government asset and selling it off to the first person that asks.
And then giving the money to his pals.
Essentially conservative basics 101.
Sounds like more austerity and tax cuts from the libs. They really want the cons to win I guess. Hopefully they aren’t thinking about some sort of department to oversee these efficiencies…
The concept that the liberals think they can materialise $28B out of thin air is laughable.
I’m all for higher taxes on the very wealthy.
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It has a certain ring to it.
If people gave a shit about where the money is coming from, Doug Ford would be tanking in the polls as he has obviously impossible to fund proposals. Whatever the parties say in their funding blurbs just serves the purpose of telling their potential voter base what’s going to happen to their taxes. In the end, the difference always comes from debt and that’s OK. So reality tells me funding proposals aren’t what wins or loses elections. The efficiencies proposal is great because it works just like it worked for Ford. It’s nebulous, it allows for saying you’re doing it while not achieving anything with it. Therefore it allows for not doing austerity in reality. Of course it also allows for austerity. It’s why I’d look at the rest of the platform details for clues on that.
Are there any more details for this?
Are we talking just increasing top bracket, more brackets, wealth tax?
Link to the PDF of their platform