On the face of it, I don't see anything wrong with taxing the wealthy to alleviate poverty, especially homelessness (which for sure is way under-reported. Do you buy that there are less than 10,000 homeless people in Toronto?) However the execution of wealth taxes does not go as planned as wealthy people are the most capital mobile in the world. And the government squanders way too much tax money. I used to work in government and government employees used to say like even 6 years ago, maybe even before that, that $100,000 is a very low threshold for the Sunshine List in le current year because of inflation.

We should use the tax dollars we collect already in a more efficient way to solve problems. We can provide relief to non-drug addicted homeless people relatively easily. A lot of people turn to drugs in the first place due to depression caused by poverty and homelessness. So helping vulnerable people before they turn to drugs is a very efficient way of dealing with the problem. The ones who are addicted to drugs, we need to find a way to wean them off the drugs efficiently (and no I don't mean letting them die or killing them). Is there a safe opiate that is inexpensive that can wean them off fentanyl, street heroin? There is this pilot opiate drug the government distributes to homeless opiate addicts that costs like $27,000 per person. This is crazy.

There is a glut of labour supply and a shortage of labour demand due to automation, outsourcing and mass immigration. There is a glut of housing demand and a shortage of housing supply. So our system is a game of musical chairs and inevitably there is a significant portion of the population that is left without a chair. And there isn't a political will on either side to resolve this problem.

A lot of people are poor through no fault of their own. Some people are low IQ, not everyone is neurotypical, free of mental illness, able-bodied, etc. Put yourself in the shoes of a hiring manager. If you have a glut of applications, you're going to choose the best applicants. There are people who are going to be losing out. People have this fantasy in their head that there is a job, a home for everyone. And then you have the people who lack empathy who just want the "excess" population to overdose on fentanyl-laced street heroin and die and get upvoted for saying that homeless people overdosing on heroin are doing society a favour.

We need to bridge the gap between fiscal realism and empathy. Politicians are failing to do this. Mainly because politicians go into politics for themselves and not to be public servants.

On the face of it, I don't see anything wrong with taxing the wealthy to alleviate poverty, especially homelessness (which for sure is way under-reported. Do you buy that there are less than 10,000 homeless people in Toronto?) However the execution of wealth taxes does not go as planned as wealthy people are the most capital mobile in the world. And the government squanders way too much tax money. I used to work in government and government employees used to say like even 6 years ago, maybe even before that, that $100,000 is a very low threshold for the Sunshine List in le current year because of inflation.

We should use the tax dollars we collect already in a more efficient way to solve problems. We can provide relief to non-drug addicted homeless people relatively easily. A lot of people turn to drugs in the first place due to depression caused by poverty and homelessness in the first place. So helping vulnerable people before they turn to drugs is a very efficient way of dealing with the problem. The ones who are addicted to drugs, we need to find a way to wean them off the drugs efficiently (and no I don't mean letting them die or killing them). Is there a safe opiate that is inexpensive that can wean them off fentanyl, street heroin? There is this pilot opiate drug the government distributes to homeless opiate addicts that costs like $27,000 per person. This is crazy.

There is a glut of labour supply and a shortage of labour demand due to automation, outsourcing and mass immigration. There is a glut of housing demand and a shortage of housing supply. So our system is a game of musical chairs and inevitably there is a significant portion of the population that is left without a chair. And there isn't a political will on either side to resolve this problem.

A lot of people are poor through no fault of their own. Some people are low IQ, not everyone is neurotypical, free of mental illness, able-bodied, etc. Put yourself in the shoes of a hiring manager. If you have a glut of applications, you're going to choose the best applicants. There are people who are going to be losing out. People have this fantasy in their head that there is a job, a home for everyone. And then you have the people who lack empathy who just want the "excess" population to overdose on fentanyl-laced street heroin and die and get upvoted for saying that homeless people overdosing on heroin are doing society a favour.

We need to bridge the gap between fiscal realism and empathy. Politicians are failing to do this. Mainly because politicians go into politics for themselves and not to be public servants.

On the face of it, I don't see anything wrong with taxing the wealthy to alleviate poverty, especially homelessness (which for sure is way under-reported. Do you buy that there are less than 10,000 homeless people in Toronto?) However the execution of wealth taxes does not go as planned as wealthy people are the most capital mobile in the world. And the government squanders way too much tax money. I used to work in government and government employees used to say like even 6 years ago, maybe even before that, that $100,000 is a very low threshold for the Sunshine List in le current year because of inflation.

We should use the tax dollars we collect already in a more efficient way to solve problems. We can provide relief to non-drug addicted homeless people relatively easily. A lot of people turn to drugs in the first place due to depression caused by poverty and homelessness in the first place. So helping vulnerable people before they turn to drugs is a very efficient way of dealing with the problem. The ones who are addicted to drugs, we need to find a way to wean them off the drugs efficiently (and no I don't mean letting them die or killing them). Is there a safe opiate that is inexpensive that can wean them off fentanyl, street heroin? There is this pilot opiate drug the government distributes to homeless opiate addicts that costs like $27,000 per person. This is crazy.

There is a glut of labour supply and a shortage of labour demand due to automation and outsourcing. There is a glut of housing demand and a shortage of housing supply. So our system is a game of musical chairs and inevitably there is a significant portion of the population that is left without a chair. And there isn't a political will on either side to resolve this problem.

A lot of people are poor through no fault of their own. Some people are low IQ, not everyone is neurotypical, free of mental illness, able-bodied, etc. Put yourself in the shoes of a hiring manager. If you have a glut of applications, you're going to choose the best applicants. There are people who are going to be losing out. People have this fantasy in their head that there is a job, a home for everyone. And then you have the people who lack empathy who just want the "excess" population to overdose on fentanyl-laced street heroin and die and get upvoted for saying that homeless people overdosing on heroin are doing society a favour.

We need to bridge the gap between fiscal realism and empathy. Politicians are failing to do this. Mainly because politicians go into politics for themselves and not to be public servants.