Doug Ford sagt

Classic conservative move. Want tax cuts no matter the situation. Good or bad or if they are the smart thing to do at the time.

He is free to do so himself. The bulk of federal spending is supporting the provinces through healthcare and social assistance and other transfers and transfers to individuals that Ford, in theory, supports.

The feds have, perhaps wisely, federalized a lot of major program debt in Canada, as nationally we get a better interest rate, saving us money over what we’d pay if provinces went into debt to pay for the same services.

Otherwise, Carney would need to ramp up to American, Italian or French levels of deficit spending and/or finally properly means test OAS payments.

Tax cuts aren’t necessary. Instead, eliminate as much red tape as possible at the federal level, and work with provincial counterparts to eliminate even more red tape. Businesses of all sizes, including housing developers, will benefit from this.

And the best part? You find savings and improve efficiency, as that’s one less thing a government bureaucrat needs to do or worry about, and can spend that time doing something else. Could be as simple as eliminating a required form, for example.

Bureaucracy is slow and inefficient af. Lightening their workload benefits everyone.

Ford is trying to out trump Trump here. Not sure what his game is.

Trickle down economics does not work. Reducing taxes will only cause people to hoard money in a crisis, not spend it.

Retaliatory tariffs are actually a tax on Canadians. That’s why carney is being cautious on that lever.

The idea that we’re going to succeed in this trade war without short term economic pain is ludicrous. You don’t stand up to bully without getting a few bruises. Ford is not acting particularly tough here.

It seems like some want to avoid any economic pain at all while getting everything we want from the U.S. relationship as well. You know what they say about people who want to have their cake and eat it too.

Instead of doing this whining, Fors should be leading people, warning them that economic pain is probably coming and offer them support both through programs and moral support. That’s what a leader does in this situation.

War ain’t pretty. We’re going to get through this just fine.

Or how about proper program spending and public policies that will actually help people deal with the high host of living and stagnant wages.

-Proper Rent Control.
-Public Housing.
-Social Housing.
– Expanding further to dental and pharmacare.
Price controls and/or subsidies of sometime to bring grocery prices down.
– proper transit systems across Canada so folks can save money on transportation.
-welfare and disability benefits that are actually liveable amounts.
– paid sick days.
– increasing corporate income taxes, and highest income earners taxes to finance said programs.
Etc etc etc.

Tax cuts do almost nothing for folks with no money to begin with. They just empty governments treasuries so they can’t do anything. But allow the top 5% to keep hoarding more wealth, and it doesn’t grow the economy or help people deal with the cost of living.

> Put money in the peoples’ pockets and they are going to go out and spend it

True, but of course the best way to do that, doesn’t help Ford’s rich friends, so of course he isn’t proposing it. Directly putting that money in people’s pockets, rather than taking a bit less from them in taxes, has a much larger impact. Even if the amount each person gets is the same as what they’d get from a tax reduction, getting that windfall money results in more people spending it, than if they slowly don’t lose as much through taxes.

Here is the part I don’t understand –

Under Wynn, I would pay $700 a year in provincial taxes, now I pay $5,000 a year in provincial taxes. But education has been cut, healthcare has been cut, and a million lother programs have been cut.

Where is the money going?

ontario needs tax cuts because……

the united states just added massive taxes to everything.

we can not compete with the new higher tax rates in usa.

i will give ford that of the useless traitorous piece of shit conservative premeires we ahve in this country, i dislike him far less ten the others.