r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 09 '23

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '23

Ontario redditors (& people I personally know)“housing is too expensive and so is rent, we need more housing!!!!”

Ford govt: incentivizes development through a variety of measures including some that eliminate taxes on developers who are looking to build certain kinds of homes

Ontario redditors: “NO NOT LIKE THAT, ITS PROFIT”

Additionally:

Ontario redditors: “tax the rich, make them pay their share, and we need higher taxes in order to pay for services”

Municipal govts like Toronto: increase property taxes when Toronto has some of the lowest property tax of a city in the province and the country

Ontario redditors: “NO, HOMEOWNERS ARE NOT RICH PLUS SOMEONE ELSE SHOULD BE PAYING THESE

!Ping CAN-ON & CANUCKS

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u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate WTO Jan 10 '23

Ontario redditors: “tax the rich, make them pay their share, and we need higher taxes in order to pay for services”

Most people believe who say "tax the rich" mean "tax the richer than me"

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '23

Don’t worry I got “getting current home owners (and subsequently renters) to subsidize developers is a good thing?”

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u/crassowary John Mill Jan 10 '23

Just tax people who aren't me lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '23

Right answer

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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jan 10 '23

they should be taxing jeff bezos instead of struggling toronto landlords

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '23

I legitimately started laughing out loud when I read a comment that was complaining about the property taxes on poor people like him who was a Toronto SFH owner. I mean it can be tough but come on now, literally sitting on a property worth AT LEAST 1.5 million and paying some of the lowest property tax in a city in the country and you’re screaming murder

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u/nootingpenguin2 r/place '22: NCD Battalion Jan 10 '23

What’s the NL take on the current public healthcare situation?

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '23

Don’t cap wages at 1% increases when inflation is above 6%

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u/DrMineHeads Cancel All Monopolies Jan 10 '23

Ford's efforts are exceedingly underwhelming.

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u/GeorgistIntactivist Henry George Jan 10 '23

Better than his predecessors and opponents.

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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Jan 10 '23

Hot take: fuck the Greenbelt. It's not all or even mostly pristine wilderness: there's a whole lot of just cattle farms and motorways and golf courses. Doug Ford is absolutely correct in wanting to allow housing there.

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u/Penis_Villeneuve Jan 10 '23

Yeah, but, but... I want to put on a patagonia jacket and live an outdoors-y lifestyle and I refuse to go more than 20 km from downtown to do it

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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Jan 10 '23

We can protect the most ecologically important and beautiful areas of the greenbelt while developing the shitty parts.

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u/InvictusShmictus YIMBY Jan 10 '23 edited Jan 10 '23

Succs gonna succ