Super fun to watch people who have voted to receive tax cuts for a decade, and cheered on the resultant gutting of municipal services they don’t personally benefit from, now loudly wondering why cities can’t just stop buying avocado toast to get through this minor blip.

“Large orgs both public and private often waste money” - not news. And yet it will be headline after headline to ensure that only car drivers and private sector get rescued, while municipal services and their skewed demographic customers get sliced again to pay for the rescue.

Annual Fraser Institute lies about taxation mislead the public. Few would ever believe that after-inflation property taxes dropped for a decade in Toronto, or that TO tax is among lowest in GTA, or that TTC fares cover almost 70% of their budget. Maddening.

Anyway. Everyone’s an infectious disease expert just like everyone is a transit planning expert and everyone is a municipal finances expert these days. I recommend reading up on this stuff if you’re interested, as most of us really have no clue how it all works.

Like all tweets, this thread was doomed to getting ______-splained by so many people. The lesson is never tweet.