Oh, oh, oh. Hey I'm not the only joyous practitioner of Grinch Scrooging (GS). The Ontario provincial government tops me. I just bother crack heads. Okay little kids too. But I draw the line at the little brats.
The Ontario government (aka GovOnCa) quietly raised the base price of beer to $25.60 about 10 days before Christmas. By in large, most poor people buy only the cheap brands of beer. The excuse was to reduce drinking e.g. driving. Like they couldn't wait til January 2nd?
Poor people don't usually drive cars. They can only afford crap beer. They didn't raise the price of the higher brands til after Christmas.
Earlier in the year, GovOnCa pulled another GS worthy of the term. Many very poor families relied on the winter clothing allowance each August to provided clothes for their children. The usually parsimonious federal government created or improved child tax credits and rebates. The latter's goal was to fulfill a promise to help reduce poverty even though a lot of the credit would also go to middle class and richies.
GovOnCa decided in its turn to assist poverty by withdrawing the winter clothing allowance with the exceptionally lame excuse that the new tax plan revenue would perhaps match the winter clothing allowance. Upon calculation, this proves untrue. It was a written lie. Yet poor people cannot afford good lawyers or advocates. So GovOnCa got away with it.
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Hey, wait a minute!
Are you saying poor people drink cheap beer and their children get warmer clothes to stave off a Canadian winter?
Well, we've certainly got to put a stop to those extravagances. The next thing you know, poor parents will experience short periods of inebriated happiness, which they definitely haven't earned and poor children might actually survive to grow up healthy and to prosper.
Obviously, we can't allow such things to happen!
Inebriation and prosperity are reserved for the middle to upper classes, neh? Apparently, it's much better if all the poor people join our flourishing capitalist economy by selling crack and other popular but deadly substances. After all, given enough time, drug addiction is largely a self-correcting problem.
Normally, our politicians seem to have no concept whatsoever of fiscal responsibility but apparently our government is already dealing with the twin, critical problems of crap beer prices and poor children's clothing.
This gives me a real sense of relief and even confidence in my non-representatives in Toronto.
I wonder if there's a web site available called: uncaring.greedy.bastards.gov.on.ca?
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