It's just, apparently literally, unthinkable to spend money on actual public goods because Those People Are Poor and Money is Too Good for Them, while it's "what else would you do?" with apparent seriousness to dump half of Toronto's infrastructure budget into keeping the Gardiner functioning because of who that conveniences.
I find this spectacularly croggling, but can't find any other explanation. "To spend is to tax" and "all taxes are immoral" combine to end with "Hobbesian anarchy, and how" so we've got this mass shift of conservativism as a political label to being the party of anarchy, on the one hand, and this act of faith to refuse to notice where their policies go, on the other.
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Date: 2020-10-03 02:43 pm (UTC)It's the mammonism.
It's just, apparently literally, unthinkable to spend money on actual public goods because Those People Are Poor and Money is Too Good for Them, while it's "what else would you do?" with apparent seriousness to dump half of Toronto's infrastructure budget into keeping the Gardiner functioning because of who that conveniences.
I find this spectacularly croggling, but can't find any other explanation. "To spend is to tax" and "all taxes are immoral" combine to end with "Hobbesian anarchy, and how" so we've got this mass shift of conservativism as a political label to being the party of anarchy, on the one hand, and this act of faith to refuse to notice where their policies go, on the other.