there's a deeper narrative on the need to increase income taxes after decades of slashing them, with little to no evidence of it having any effect on aggregate spending at all.

mark carney is at the end of the boomer generation. conservatives like him have spent their entire generation, which for him extends backwards 20 years because he's at the end of the boomer discussion rather than the start of the gen x discussion, moaning and complaining about inefficiencies in government, and we have seen 40 years of constant cuts to government at every level.

now, carney wants to increase spending on death by cutting spending on life. but there is nothing left for mark carney to cut. everything has been cut already, over the last 40 years of cuts.

we need dramatic increases in income taxes in this country - 30%, 40% tax increases - and we need to use the money collected in tax revenue to spend on life, not on death. but if it must be government spending on death that gets government to change it's approach to spending and stop cutting taxes and start raising them for the next 50 years, so be it.