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Did you see that Gestapo budget? This is it.

This guy would drink the flavour aid without a second thought. Or a first one.

Okay, but Carney is not going to tax the ultra wealthy. His track record so far is cutting taxes, including one targeting the wealthy specifically. People talk about raising military spending without considering that that money is going to have to come at the expense of something else. We talk about the cost in terms of percentage of GDP because it makes a nice small non-scary percentage like 5%. But that represents just shy of a third of the national budget, over double what we just recently raised our spending to. That money is not going to come from new taxes on the wealthy, it's going to come from cuts to services. Health care being the meatiest place to make those cuts.

There's also lots of (frequently not even that) old games that I never got around to/never heard about that I can now get on sale for 5$ or whatever, so it's not always a matter of replaying.

30% of the budget. Certainly the end of nationalized health care. That's worth it to you?

And if you think the US won't engage in the sorts of tactics it currently is engaging in to demand we spend more of our military budget on them then you are mistaken.

That doesn't justify spending more as a percentage of our GDP on the military than the USA who spends more than the next 10 or something states combined. I'm not giving up nationalized health care because Donald fucking Trump wants to shake down NATO and make Canada spend 30% of it's national budget on American arms.

We don't need to increase the military budget to 5% of GDP, a greater share than the US currently spends on it's military by 1.6%. That's insane and will certainly mean cuts to services like health care.

Taxes cut under this government:

1. Consumer carbon tax

2. Capital gains tax increase

3. Digital Services Tax

Carney cuts taxes like he won as leader of the CPC.

Carney is running to the Conservatives for support more than he is the NDP. There's a lot to criticize him for from the left. Whereas the right has got three tax cuts and a promise to hugely increase the military budget in just a few months of this government.

Happy Canada Day to you all.

Between selling out Canada's sovereignty and the NATO target he's doing a lot of appeasing. I don't think he deserves all the grace you're giving him.

Canada's sovereignty means that little to you? Your elected representative just got overruled by a foreign leader.

I really don't care what the trade deal looks like, letting the US president dictate Canada's internal tax policy is a bridge too far for me.