{"id":22917,"date":"2015-05-04T21:41:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T01:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22917"},"modified":"2015-05-04T21:41:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T01:41:01","slug":"justin-trudeau-does-robin-hood-imitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/justin-trudeau-does-robin-hood-imitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Trudeau does Robin Hood imitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/john-ivison-justin-trudeau-stakes-his-political-future-on-playing-robin-hood\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Justin Trudeau is gambling that he can get away with a tax hike on wealthy Canadians to fund a middle-class tax cut for those who get \u201can ever-shrinking piece of the pie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal leader, long criticized for speaking in generalities, revealed the core theme of his election platform \u2014 Fairness for the Middle Class \u2014 at a folksy event in an Aylmer, Que., diner on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, he committed to a $670 tax cut for every Canadian who earns $44,701 or more \u2014 a pledge that will cost $3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>It will be paid for by creating a new tax bracket of 33% for those who earn more than $200,000, he said. The Liberals project this change will bring in $3 billion, making the move revenue neutral to the federal government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How is this really all is going to work, you might wonder. Like this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monty Python - Dennis Moore\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qLkhx0eqK5w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Justin Trudeau is gambling that he can get away with a tax hike on wealthy Canadians to fund a middle-class tax cut for those who get \u201can ever-shrinking piece of the pie.\u201d The Liberal leader, long criticized for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/justin-trudeau-does-robin-hood-imitation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[967],"class_list":["post-22917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-justin-trudeau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}