Taxation and the middle class

[Bytor]

 Also I’d like to see the occasional discussion of “we’d like to do this for all of us, but we have to pay for it so we’re proposing the following tax increase” rather than the usual lying about increasing government services while putting money back in our pockets.

You'd like a tax increase? Really?

Yes. How do you propose we properly pay for public infrastructure?

At the municipal level we've got more than a century's worth of infrastructure repairs that need to be done if we continue at the current rate, not accounting for any new infra that will also age out, too. Why? because we've had decades and decades of voters wanting property tax kept as low as possible.

Conservative politicians like Doug Ford using the idea of keeping the taxes low, or even cutting them, as a way to hide the "starve the beast" strategy being used on healthcare, education, and government services as a way to get people to accept privatization.

That attitude is a neoliberalist cancer, a relative of "trickle down" and blind worship of Adam Smith's "invisible hand", all of which have spread further than they should have.