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Singh’s NDP commits to lower monthly costs by taking the taxes off life’s essentials (www.ndp.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

On a side note, sales taxes are obviously regressive. In general, on tax, I'm currently with the MMT folk. Taxes don't fund government spending. Their purpose is taking money out of the economy (to keep inflation in check) and modifying behavior - encouraging more of this, discouraging more of that. So I'm totally fine abolishing sales taxes altogether. But that's a much bigger and scarier shift than taxes/controls on necessities. 🥲