Tuesday, May 19, 2020

It's Just Money

What's a trillion between friends?:

Taxpayers won’t know for more than a year whether billions budgeted for pandemic relief were well spent, says incoming Auditor General Karen Hogan. Speaking in the Senate, Hogan said auditors aren’t even aware how much has been spent in the past ten weeks: “It’s important to make sure you get to the bottom.”

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has chosen to make life more expensive for Canadians by raising the federal carbon tax by 50 per cent amidst the COVID-19 economic and health crisis. Meanwhile, governments around the world are moving in the opposite direction. Why? Because hiking taxes during a global pandemic is a bad idea.

No kidding.

It's as stupid as anything Gerald Butts comes up with but Canadians don't mind wasting their $2,000 sum of beer money.




Obedient mouthpieces get paid accordingly:
Cabinet has approved another bailout for newspapers, the second in a year, but only for publishers endorsed by the Canada Revenue Agency. Regulations exclude small, family-run weeklies in favour of large, money-losing media corporations: “I’m a large-L, hard core Liberal.”


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