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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
Oh man I can't believe there are actually people buying into the idea that DOGE is genuinely there to reduce "waste". It's there to allow Musk and people like him to get away with things they otherwise couldn't like mistreating workers and consumers. Which is why the National Labor Relations Board, the Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were among the first things targeted.
It's literally just giving a pleasant sounding name to something horrific which is the dismantlement of the only real barrier preventing self-interested billionaires from taking over society. But can give something whatever name you want. It's what that thing is and does that matters.
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There's a sucker born every minute, as the saying goes. I'll give them this. Rebranding all the government functions and programs they don't like as "waste" was pretty shrewd. There's enough gullible people, like the DOGE apologist in this thread, to buy it.
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Originally Posted by Marshsparrow
The $18B in new revenue is a head scratcher.
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Yeah. It's not just Carney calling this out. I saw this post from Prof Mike Moffat:
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The Conservative plan is out and, ooof, is this costing a disaster.
There's a whole bunch of phantom revenues booked here, and the GST housing pledge is costed at under $2B. Given their proposed eligibility criteria, it should be more in the 4-6B range.
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https://x.com/MikePMoffatt/status/1914690899893703009?t=9Iy2vdsvYY-PqDlnvTPWeQ&s=19
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