- ImplyingImplications ( @ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ) 22•1 year ago
I’m pretty sure most people are aware governments use tax dollars to pay for things.
"Future historians of public finances in Canada will see from a glance … that something remarkable happened in the 2020/21 fiscal year,” the report notes.
Yeah that’d be a global pandemic the likes of which have never been seen before. Brilliant report.
- sndmn ( @sndmn@lemmy.ca ) 14•1 year ago
What? Do you expect some other country to pay?
I had expected our government not to completely fuck future generations.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 10•1 year ago
Where in it did they say we were fucked? I haven’t read it yet but I’m guessing that’s not in there. 1% higher taxes or whatever isn’t great but it’s more than worth it. Especially if you’re in a lower bracket and don’t see much or any of that anyway.
Edit: It doesn’t say anything about future costs from a skim of the paper, or even say the expenditure was too much. They mostly focus on how governments presented what they were doing, which in their opinion was skewed.
I find it weird that these academics wrote (with the text equivalent of a straight face) that politicians shouldn’t dissemble and spin things, when that’s basically their entire job, but whatever.
- sndmn ( @sndmn@lemmy.ca ) 7•1 year ago
I thought we were talking finance, not global warming.
Try to keep up.
- jadero ( @jadero@lemmy.ca ) 1•1 year ago
Why would you expect that? If I’ve learned anything, it’s that nobody has ever paid more than lip service to the effects on future generations. Pollution, overfishing, everything we do is for ourselves.
- Kichae ( @Kichae@kbin.social ) 12•1 year ago
I’m shocked – shocked, I say – to hear that the National Post thinks the government shouldn’t help people. Obviously the only thing it should spend money on is corporate subsidies.
The government shouldn’t be subsidizing people or corporations
- Samus Crankpork ( @Crankpork@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
No, the government should be taking care of it’s people. That’s literally it’s only job. Sitting on money while people are dying is a complete failure of government, and at that point it should be replaced.
People should be taking care of themselves and each other voluntarily, government intervention shouldn’t be necessary.
Look back in history, governments have always ruled citizens to their own benefit rather than the benefit of the citizens. There’s no reason to think this has changed
- Samus Crankpork ( @Crankpork@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
How many people do you know with the power or means to run hospitals or fund research into curing diseases? That’s what taxes are for, and that’s the only scale that works for something as big as a pandemic, or country/province-wide healthcare in general.
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) 1•1 year ago
This bootstraps policy is a naive fantasy. You need to learn why.
Maybe go live in rural America for a bit. It’s sobering and catalyzing.
- Concetta ( @vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 6•1 year ago
Oh my god who cares
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 12•1 year ago
People who are very concerned about paying an extra 10,000 CAD on their 1,000,000 CAD income.
Uhhh… people who work for their money? Or do you enjoy lighting your money on fire?
- Concetta ( @vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 15•1 year ago
Lmao yes because investing in a population during a global pandemic is lighting money on fire.
- Samus Crankpork ( @Crankpork@beehaw.org ) 14•1 year ago
I enjoy surviving an international pandemic. That’s not free.
- sndmn ( @sndmn@lemmy.ca ) 12•1 year ago
What you should have posted was nothing.
- MJUltra ( @MJUltra@lemmy.ca ) 5•1 year ago
Lol, underrated but top tier comment
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) 1•1 year ago
Anarchy is super edgy in homeroom, but was obsolete the first moment humankind banded together for safety and specialization.