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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill is the biggest public spending bonanza in decades. The student loan amnesty was a $300 billion public gift to core supporters. He’s proposing to increase the corporate tax rate to 28 per cent.
In Canada, Trudeau rolled back Harper’s planned increase to the age for OAS eligibility, and mandated increases to CPP contributions. We’re also going to see Canada follow suit with massive public spending on green industrial subsidies.
We certainly don’t hear anyone on the left or centre-left today calling for restraint in government spending.
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That Trillion dollar bill isn’t a left wing bill in sense though. It’s a wealth transfer from the public to corporations. Calling that a left wing bill is a perfect example of there not being a left. There is no United States Solar Panel Service.
You look at Trudeau’s “roll back” it was to the status quo. That again isn’t left. Left right now would be continuing the Covid UBis and expanding them to everyone. Nationalizing telecom because people are getting ripped off. Or even basic changes to union legislation or federal minimum wages.
Left in an environmental sense would be banning all sorts of oil, coal and LNG expansion not using market based subsidies.
And look at lack increases in corporate taxes or wealth transfer taxes. People don’t even know what the left looks like anymore.
The equivalent of the “Christofacists” is real communists who want to labour to control the means of production.