{"id":48583,"date":"2019-05-29T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=48583"},"modified":"2019-05-28T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T15:17:28","slug":"trudeaus-liberals-consider-running-on-more-taxes-platform-for-fall-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/05\/29\/trudeaus-liberals-consider-running-on-more-taxes-platform-for-fall-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau&#8217;s Liberals consider running on &#8220;more taxes&#8221; platform for fall election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready for more taxes? Justin Trudeau seems to think you are, and internal Liberal Party documents indicate that <a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/lilley-trudeau-looks-for-more-ways-to-pick-your-pocket\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">several &#8220;revenue enhancement&#8221; tools<\/a> are among the ideas being considered for inclusion in the party&#8217;s election campaign:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Justin-Trudeau-in-costume-screencap.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Justin-Trudeau-in-costume-screencap-853x360.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-47171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Justin-Trudeau-in-costume-screencap-853x360.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Justin-Trudeau-in-costume-screencap-150x63.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Justin-Trudeau-in-costume-screencap-480x203.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Justin-Trudeau-in-costume-screencap-768x324.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Justin-Trudeau-in-costume-screencap.png 1222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are you ready for a tax on pop?<\/p>\n<p>That is what some Liberals want to run on in October\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that and a carbon tax, a plastic tax, a tax on selling your home and more.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to taxes, Liberal like them all.<\/p>\n<p>Lest you think I\u2019m picking on Liberals, this actually comes from an internal party document that was first reported by the Liberal-friendly CBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOntario Liberal MPs want to pitch voters on a \u201csugar sweetened beverages levy \u2014 more commonly known as a soda tax \u2014 in the coming federal election campaign,\u201d reported CBC over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The information came from a series of policy proposals put forward by Ontario Liberal MPs that were to be considered for both the budget earlier this year and as potential policies for the upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a problem with sugar sweetened beverages being too readily available at too low a price and it is massively contributing to the obesity epidemic,\u201d Liberal MP Mark Holland wrote in support of the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals want a tax of 20% on any sugar sweetened beverage believing it could bring in an estimated $1.2 billion a year or $29.6 billion over 25 years and health-care savings of $7.3 billion over 25 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready for more taxes? Justin Trudeau seems to think you are, and internal Liberal Party documents indicate that several &#8220;revenue enhancement&#8221; tools are among the ideas being considered for inclusion in the party&#8217;s election campaign: Are you ready for a tax on pop? That is what some Liberals want to run on in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,53],"tags":[188,39,887,908,118],"class_list":["post-48583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","tag-electionwatch","tag-junkscience","tag-justintrudeau","tag-liberalparty","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cDB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48584,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48583\/revisions\/48584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}