Für jeden Dollar, der in den öffentlichen Nahverkehr investiert wird, entstehen 7 Dollar an wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Vorteilen. Warum kürzt die liberale Regierung den Canada Public Transit Fund?
https://kaifeehaque.substack.com/p/next-stop-economic-slowdown-carneys?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post+viewer&triedRedirect=true
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Carney’s economics is about maximizing the size of the pie for the wealthy and large corporations. It doesn’t matter to him how large the pie is overall. If the pie shrinks but the slice for the wealthy gets bigger then that’s a win. It’s all pretty standard trickle down economics.
I mean, even the idea of electing an economist as prime minister who promises to return Canada to prosperity through austerity and gutting of the public services has already been tried before. And it worked great… if you happen to be one of those lucky few at the top. As for the rest of us, it didn’t work when Harper tried it and it won’t work when Carney does.
The wealthy don’t use public transit and they don’t make enough money off it, so there’s no value to Carney to fund it.
because this is the fundamental flaws of democratic societies. Politicians don’t have enough motivation to fund projects that doesn’t benefit their own careers. Large public transit projects will only be done years after they finish their terms so they don’t reap the benefit, in fact it will eat their budget otherwise could have spent on projects that can show immediate results. This is not just a liberal government problem, not a conservative one. It happens across North America.
The federal government income is roughly 13% of GDP. So this investment has a nearly flat return, ie it doesn’t improve government balances. As a business plan it would fail. But, there are other reasons to invest in it. I suspect that the federal government is stretched thin at the moment. Once the major projects are up and running, more money will be available for these kinds of investments. The EV incentive was unexpected, for example, so there is some hope.