Unlike America, the happier members of the g7 are all tax-and-spend countries, where economies of scale and single-buyer purchasing helps us all tremendously.

But as we talk about foreign influence on our elections, here’s the insidious creeping toxin itself. Fuck off, natpo, you navel-gazing mouthpiece slithering from the shadows of your former greatness to parrot one cruel suggestion after another.

We do not need to follow America’s footsteps. We’re good being happier.

Yeah, it must be the spending, not the enormous cuts to large business taxes that have been continuously occuring over the last 40ish years.

“The only reason Galen Weston gets involved in price fixing your groceries is because he has to pay taxes! If the government gave him a huge tax break he’d definitely lower the cost of your groceries!”

We need to grow the economy.

And nothing grows the economy more thanlower-income people having more money to spend, so we’re advocating for increases to social security and welfare…

says the head of the Business Council of Canada

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way; bullshit. Governments have spent money for a long time. This dude probably wants to go back to the days before income tax where you could put whatever you want in a sausage, and staff the plant with indentured 9-year-olds. I’m not even sure if spending got noticeably lower in the trickle-down era, because the Cold War was raging at the same time.