A comprehensive analysis of Canada’s first sugar tax shows signs of effectiveness, but the study comes too late to catch the eyes of decision makers who’ve already ruled on the tax’s abolition.
But the tax is set to be fully repealed on July 1. Its abolition was one of the first acts of Premier John Hogan, who took office in May. He said it was contributing to affordability issues in the province.
I wish we had politicians brave enough to say they will make the hard and unpopular decisions. As it is, politicians only make unpopular decisions when it helps the business class. Federal NDP campaigned on removing the carbon tax. The Ontario NDP said they would by back the 407 and remove tolls. The only people I have seen with any ounce of courage and ambition so far are the ontario greens, but that’s probably a byproduct of their long-shot odds of getting elected.
These policies don’t happen because most people seem incapable of understanding what we are actually paying for with policies that increase affordability and access to things that are a net-negative on society like card, alcohol, and soda.
If fiscal conservatives were real, they would be the people rallying behind these ideas.
If the populace of voters can’t remember anything that happened just a couple years ago, I don’t think we can expect them to be forward thinking either. There’s little incentive for politicians to make the hard, unpopular, long-term decisions that we need to battle climate change and other challenges.
Fucking populist idiot.
I wish we had politicians brave enough to say they will make the hard and unpopular decisions. As it is, politicians only make unpopular decisions when it helps the business class. Federal NDP campaigned on removing the carbon tax. The Ontario NDP said they would by back the 407 and remove tolls. The only people I have seen with any ounce of courage and ambition so far are the ontario greens, but that’s probably a byproduct of their long-shot odds of getting elected.
These policies don’t happen because most people seem incapable of understanding what we are actually paying for with policies that increase affordability and access to things that are a net-negative on society like card, alcohol, and soda.
If fiscal conservatives were real, they would be the people rallying behind these ideas.
If the populace of voters can’t remember anything that happened just a couple years ago, I don’t think we can expect them to be forward thinking either. There’s little incentive for politicians to make the hard, unpopular, long-term decisions that we need to battle climate change and other challenges.