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Glenn Toddun's avatar

If we can add some citizen oversight to these programs, it might go some way into addressing Liberal concerns about who deserves it and who doesn’t as well as Conservative concerns about organizational corruption.

I know we’re a long way from weaving citizens assemblies into our governance structures, but if we don’t start the conversation now we might never get there.

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Godfrey Moase's avatar

Rich people don’t even use private buses, let alone public ones.

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David Burse's avatar

Reminds me of the very rich investment banker riding in his limo to his estate. He notices some very poor people eating grass on the side of the road. Shocked that this was happening, he tells his driver to pull over, rolls down his window, and tells the poors they can all pile into his limo and he will take them to his estate for a glorious meal. The profoundly thankful poors do pile in, and the driver moves on. The most senior of the poors says to the rich guy, "sir, thank you so much for this, we are starving." The rich man replies, "no problem, I have a LOT of grass ...."

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yeshuap's avatar

Im rich by a lot of metrics and use the bus every day. The same bus is filled with professionals who would also likely be derided as rich.

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Penguin/Mom's avatar

I feel like I'm reading one of the only recent think pieces in English that use the word liberal in its economical and not societal sense. Been a while!

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Alexander Kurz's avatar

Instead of means testing, if one is concerned about fairness, one could instead just raise taxes on the wealthy and use the tax to support the public good in question. Is that what you propose?

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