Thread by @sunnshiiny

Well, well, well.

Independent economic report commissioned by provincial BCNDP government recommending help for those in need, BUT NOT UBI.

Economists recommend raising rates for those in poverty. Reorganizing benefits available. But not UBI.

https://twitter.com/moirawyton/status/1354952934048608265

While the concept of UBI is attractive, the cost is prohibitive.

Unless the federal government renegotiates social program transfer payments and expectations, UBI is untenable.

With 7 conservative premiers at the helm, a UBI seems quite unlikely any time soon.

I believe I said that a few years ago. Could have saved BC millions in a 2 year analysis and report.

How anyone could expect a different outcome is baffling!?!

Provinces are responsible for social programs, not the federal government.

Making UBI a moonshot at best and hardly achievable if the premiers refuse to cooperate.

Guess what? The conservative premiers will outright reject a suggestion of UBI, because it will raise their budget requirements.

That’s what happens when conservatives are elected.

Obstructionism.

That’s the conservative motto. Reject any improvements to social programs. It’s their ideology.

They don’t believe government should be supplying benefits at all. Which is why they provide less than subsistence benefits to the most vulnerable.

We’re it up to this batch of conservatives (who are actually paleolibertarians) also known as Christian Nationalists, they’d cancel all social programs and transfer social programs to faith communities. Thus far they’ve not been able to transfer part of the expense.

Understanding the political realities is part of politics. So many refuse to accept reality.

Demanding a UBI be implemented by federal government with no comprehension of the provincial purview and political leanings of the premiers is demagogic populism.

Which is what Greens and NDP do best. Raise expectations of those most vulnerable to poverty and suffering to gain political support.

It enrages me to watch political parties raise the hopes of people with low incomes to expect UBI. It’s political opportunism.

It’s cruel.

The provinces are not going to approve of UBI any time soon.

Go back and read the article. Even the BC NDP government clawed back some of the additional benefits provided by the federal government for covid relief.

That’s federal taxes from all Canadians that BC put into their provincial treasury to redistribute elsewhere. At the expense of those living day to day on less than subsistence income. Each person in poverty that qualified for the benefit had their provincial benefits reduced.

The funds are then in the possession of the provincial government to redistribute to other more deserving programs or projects.

At least BC allowed some of the federal benefit to make it to the people who needed it most. Ontario and Alberta clawed it all back.

Making those in dire need no better off than if the federal government had done nothing. It’s almost as if premiers colluded to nullify the federal government’s assistance to the most vulnerable.

Unless we rewrite the constitution and reassign social programs to federal purview, or stop electing political parties and candidates who work to exacerbate the needs of the most vulnerable (to own the libs), the abuse and substandard care of the most vulnerable will continue.

Constantly demanding the federal government implement a UBI has become the mantra of GPC and NDP supporters. Some Liberal party supporters too. But its all in vain. The provinces are blocking a UBI, not the federal government.

If you don’t understand how political decisions are made & how the separation of federal & provincial powers impacts decisions, then you’re more likely to blame the feds for abandoning the poor, disabled and LTC during Covid. Which is the rhetoric repeated by left opposition.

There is a reason I’ve criticized the left opposition parties so harshly.

Because they are currently using demagogic populist rhetoric too in order to gain political support and divide the nation into tribal politics. Which ultimately serves Conservative party interests.

I don’t think it’s an accident or a misunderstanding. The fact BCNDP Horgan claws back Covid benefits from the most vulnerable is clear indication his party knows feds attempted to assist the most vulnerable. But his province neutered that assistance by clawing it back.

Politics is a dirty game. Modern politics is rife with obstructionism and sabotage.

But if you know how politics works, you don’t fall for demagoguery and false hope.

It’s not LPC denying the most vulnerable assistance to survive covid. It’s provinces.

I wonder why so many scandals keep being lobbed at LPC and PMJT in particular? Hmmm?

Maybe because he’s actually trying to help Canadians. Not to win political support, but because he may actually care about the welfare of the most vulnerable during a global deadly pandemic.

So, what does that say about opposition party leaders who criticize those efforts and muddy waters by confusing purview? And those premiers who block LPC efforts? I know what it says to me.

You have to decide what it says to you.

Reject demagoguery.

I also said this was the case since a minority government was elected. And pointed out several false arguments made by left opposition that were used to create a minority government.

Seems I actually understand what I’ve been opining about.

Who would have thought? 🧐🤨