Since 2008 I feel that's all we've had. Cuts, austerity, and an overall decrease in public service quality and availability.

Why the fuck are we even paying taxes?

The money keeps getting funneled into private interests through corporate subsidies supposedly to help improve the economy. But these companies don't pay back their fair share and keep all the profits.

As a millennial, I'm so sick and tired of this shit. I've witnessed our society collapse since the 80's with this neo-liberal reaganomics BS. It's a failed experiment, but the people who benefited the most from it own the media that convinced the population that it's still the best system.

We need to do like the French and go on a general strike and start asking for our due. We deserve better goddammit!

BUT SURE LETS INVEST LIKE A BILLION IN AI.

Fuck’s sake.

Not surprising given the hiring spike under Trudeau. Like since 2019 public sector jobs increased at roughly double the pace of private sector, and had gotten to the point that public sector job characteristics skewed national averages on things like wage growth.

So stats like the increase in national average incomes/wages, was largely driven by gains for public sector employees -- ones who's salaries are paid by the collective taxation of primarily private sector employees. It's sorta like seeing a spike in people demanding food, but no change in the number of farmer's supplying that food -- if the supply doesn't catch up quick, you're going to have less people (or at least, increased cases of hunger/starvation). Some people need to go back to farming, if you're going to keep an equilibrium. Especially if the people eating, have gotten union-pushed food/plate increases, have become significantly more numerous in comparison, and are getting far more of the total food supply by percentage produced.

Significantly increasing taxes on the rich might help, though I imagine it still wouldn't be enough to support the recent increases in public sector costs. That's sort of moot though, as the gov in general is loathe to increase taxes on the rich.

Not surprising given the guy is a banker.