The federal NDP are proposing a massive expansion in social programs to be paid for by tax hikes on corporations and the wealthiest taxpayers if they win the next federal election.
Leader Jagmeet Singh released the first phase of his party’s platform in Hamilton, Ont., Sunday at the provincial party’s policy convention. The unusually early reveal of a party’s election platform was done to ensure candidates have material to go door knocking with during the summer, according to a party official.
The document called “A New Deal for People,” proposes taking the “next step” in medicare by implementing universal pharmacare next year and doing the same for dental care, vision care, mental health care and hearing care within the next decade.
In a prepared speech, released before the event, Singh said the platform “shows how we believe government can make things better for people.”
The plan doesn’t come with a price tag, but party officials said more details will be rolled out before voters head to the polls on Oct. 21.
It also includes plans to invest $1 billion immediately in child care and building 500,000 affordable housing units in the next decade.
To pay for all of that and the previously announced $15 billion environment plan, the party says it would raise corporate taxes, capital gains taxes, taxes on the highest income bracket and introduce a wealth tax on people with a networth of $20 million or more.
What a misleading headline.. people are going to see “billions in tax hikes” and say fuck the NDP without even realizing that they are aimed at corporations and the super-wealthy.
Worse, they’re gonna see the “billions of tax hikes” to corporations and the super-wealthy and jump to the defense of their oppressors.
“bUT ThE JoB cREaToRZ!!1!”