2y ago

Ongoing cost-of-living crisis should trigger another housing benefit payment: Singh

nationalpost.com

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Subsidizing homeowners with a taxpayer-funded cheque for $500 is regressive policy for a leftist party. Even if we're means-testing it, there's so many better ways that money could be spent.
Once again, as a renter dealing with year over year increases of hundreds of dollars per month, I get nothing.
- Wait until the Conservatives take over. You'll get stuff taken away. Lol
  None of the parties are offering any solutions. Either status quo or free money that'll last less than a week.
  
  You're both right. This is terrible policy for a supposedly leftist party, and yet both the NDP and the Liberals are still better than the Conservatives.
  What we need, desperately, is an openly socialist NDP who can push the window to the left. Even if they don't win, they can force the Liberals to take on more openly policies just to avoid losing votes to them (remember, UKIP didn't have to win a single seat to get Brexit; they just had to be enough of a threat to the Tories votes).
- We could do something really radical and start socializing necessities. Sure, a lot of rich would complain, and plenty of poor people, until they realized it helped them. F the billionaires’ third vacation home.
- so many better ways that money could be spent.
  Yeah but that bit of cash looks soooo good for the press. Free money right!? Just ignore the dumpster fire behind you, here's your pittance, peasant. Now get back in line! crack
$500 benefit payment for low-income families to help them pay their rent. What the landlord does? raise the rent 50$/month and at the end of the year, the 500$ gov-funded money is in his pocket :)
No.
Jesus Christ, this is the grocery rebate all over again: socializing the profits of the wealthy. It's a terrible idea from a supposedly left-wing party.
Unless this comes with a rider "...and we'd going to personally take the funds for this by taxing the ten richest people in Canada" then this is not worth doing.
Fuuuuuuuuuck that. I'm tired of paying for these grants. I make too much to get any back. I work my ass off in a single income family with a disabled child who I can barely spend time with anymore to watch everyone else get grants. I'm fucking tired of it.
Stop normalizing RENT, it's a fucking hole people just throw money into
- They should be focusing on making home ownership cheaper.
  The cheaper homes are;
  A) the less landlords have to pay for mortgages so they can charge less for rent
  B) More people can afford to own instead of rent, reducing demand for rentals and bringing rental costs down
Can Singh go back to the school of economic thought he belongs to?
I'd love a handout but it does nothing to actually help. Literally a bribe.
If you vote for me I'll pay you.

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