The air hangs thick with the scent of impending doom, families trying to decide whether they should heat their homes or eat and how they might buy Christmas gifts for their kids. The mood in Canada is about as festive as a tax audit on Christmas morning.
Our fearless leader, Justin Trudeau, has unveiled his solution to the affordability crisis: a $250 "rebate cheque" and a temporary GST holiday. A targeted approach, he calls it. Targeted like aiming a water pistol at a wildfire.
Let's dissect this "targeted approach.” First, the $250 cheque. Two months' worth of what exactly? A tank of gas? A decent turkey? Not both. It's like offering a drowning man a box of toothpicks and expecting him to save himself by building a raft.
Meanwhile, the carbon tax will rise by 26% on April 1st, making the whole gesture feel like a cruel joke played by the government. The irony is as thick as the gravy most of us can only think of for part of a Christmas Dinner.
Then there's the GST holiday—a reprieve from the relentless gnawing of taxes on essential items. This is temporary relief, a band-aid on a gaping wound. I went to the store to see what a turkey costs to calculate what the GST holiday may do for me.
A six-kilogram turkey costs $125. To give a Christmas dinner a fair shot, I need closer to $200. To get the complete experience, I would need to spend $4000 using the GST savings to pay for my Christmas dinner. There is only one way to describe this: It is a joke.
And who pays it anyway? We do. All of us. This is just kicking the can down the street. This isn't a rebate; it's a deferral, a debt waiting to explode in our faces. The government estimates this generosity will add $6.3 billion to the national debt. That's $6.3 billion to be clawed back from our children and children's children, with interest accruing like a runaway train. Our taxes are already sky-high, and this isn't a solution; it's a financial time bomb disguised as a political festive gesture.
It's like Trudeau thinks we’re all a bunch of easily manipulated fools, handing us some political Pavlovian experiment in which a shiny $250 cheque is supposed to drown out the bitter taste of rising taxes and inflation.
The audacity! The sheer, unmitigated gall! While Canadians struggle to afford groceries, Trudeau’s administration is handing out this paltry sum while planning to raise the carbon tax on April 1st. The government's narrative is falling flat as Canadians face harsh daily economic conditions. It's a political sleight of hand, designed to distract from the more significant problems – that government spending, the carbon tax, inflation and other largess are drowning us in a sea of government and personal debt.
The worst part is that this will not solve anything. It will ultimately come back to bite us. The government is borrowing to give us this, and we must pay it back.
In all, this is a cruel joke.
Best wishes ...
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