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War On Everything

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Make no mistake: this plan for us — not them.

The UN is explicit: “COVID-19 has provided insight into how rapid lifestyle changes can be brought about by governments … The lockdown period in many countries may be long enough to establish new, lasting routines if supported by longer term measures. In planning the recovery from COVID-19, governments have an opportunity to catalyse low-carbon lifestyle changes by disrupting entrenched practices.”
 
Governments can achieve these goals, the UN says, through taxation and other policies affecting fundamental decisions we make about our lives, from what we eat (preferably meatless, low-carbon diets), to how we travel (less by air, more by subsidized electric cars), to how we power our homes (with wind and solar energy, at least for “higher income” earners, given the costs) and much, much more.
 
That’s what Trudeau means by “The Great Reset.”

We Went From “We’re All In This Together” To “Show Me Your Papers” So Fast We Didn’t Even Notice

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Brian Lilley;

The Ford government is considering adopting an “immunity passport” to show who has taken a COVID-19 vaccine and will be eligible for certain activities once vaccination becomes widespread. The shocking comments were made by Health Minister Christine Elliott on Tuesday.
 
Elliott was being asked about vaccine distribution including convincing more people to take the shot once it is available.

Related: First, Covid-19 lockdowns. Next, climate change…

And The Nation Will Bankrupt Itself

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Flashback: Trudeau’s ‘literally frightening’ spending plan has some Liberals, bureaucrats very worried

Public servants in Canada have traditionally operated under cover of anonymity and have no identity beyond their minister. The exception has been the department of Finance, which has often provided a challenge function to the government of the day, turning back the flood of requests for funding from other departments. The idea that the prime minister and the finance minister are pulling at the opposite ends of the blanket took a hit under Bill Morneau. One Liberal MP called Finance a “vassal state” during the first Trudeau mandate. But Morneau was determined to impose himself during the second mandate, which may be one reason he was retired.
 
With Trudeau and Freeland apparently simpatico on the plan to “build back better”, concerns about affordability at Finance have been trampled. “They are fiscally conscious people but they have thrown up their hands and said, ‘How much do you want to spend.’ There is a state of discouragement that I haven’t seen in 25 years in Ottawa,” said one senior bureaucrat.

Also from September…

They Went From “Flatten The Curve” To “Put Your Hands Behind Your Back” So Fast We Didn’t Even Notice

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How Deep, Señor Trudeau?

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Venezuelan Economics;

One senior public servant described the expensive schedule of social programs coming down as a “structural change in the way government in this country operates.”
 
The risk for Justin Trudeau and new finance minister Chrystia Freeland is that if they spend too much, too fast, they could estrange blue Liberals worried about economic growth and fiscal discipline. The throne speech details remain unknown to all but a few, but there are enough broad hints to make some Liberal MPs and supporters, not to mention senior public servants, very worried indeed.
 
With three weeks until the government unveils its new agenda, the cracks are already beginning to show.

The Branch DeBlasions

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New York City is home to 118 billionaires, more than any other American city. New York City is also home to nearly one million millionaires, more than any other city in the world. Among those millionaires some 8,865 are classified as “high net worth,” with more than $30 million each.
 
They pay the taxes. The top one percent of NYC taxpayers pay nearly 50 percent of all personal income taxes collected in New York. Personal income tax in the New York area accounts for 59 percent of all revenues. Property taxes add in more than a billion dollars a year in revenue, about half of that generated by office space.

And they’re leaving.

And The Budget Will Balance Itself

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Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!

CBC FACTCHECK, October 2019: The Conservatives’ misleading claims about a ‘secret’ Liberal housing tax

Blacklocks, July 2020; CMHC is spending $250,000 researching a first-ever federal home equity tax. Organizers of the research project earlier likened homeowners to lottery winners whose residences were tax shelters: “The objective is to identify solutions that could level the playing field between renters and owners.”

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