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NDP, Liberals release costed election platforms with duelling affordability promises (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] Enkers 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

I'm all for higher taxes on the very wealthy.

[–] sbv 5 points 1 day ago

WEALTH TAX NOW WEALTH TAX NOW WEALTH TAX NOW WEALTH TAX NOW WEALTH TAX NOW WEALTH TAX NOW WEALTH TAX NOW WEALTH TAX NOW WEALTH TAX NOW WEALTH TAX NOW WEALTH TAX NOW WEALTH TAX NOW

It has a certain ring to it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Remind me, how was Doug Ford going to pay for that $100 billion highway?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

By cutting healthcare and extensively fining anyone who owns a bicycle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Are there any more details for this?

We will freeze income taxes for the 98.2% of Ontarians making under $220,000 a year.

Are we talking just increasing top bracket, more brackets, wealth tax?

Link to the PDF of their platform