If they leave out the tax component, it actually makes sense. The problem is that dense urban areas have a reduced amount of soil able to absorb and filter rainwater runoff before it goes into the lakes, rivers and oceans. Rainwater is awesome. I drink it (or melted snow) every day, but if it is collected from a parking lot it is full of pollutants.
Instead of a new tax, they should be incentivizing people having gardens, green spaces, greywater gardens, etc. Their instinct is always to govern with a stick rather than a carrot.
Have you seen the canadian building code? For fuck's sake, you need a law degree just to build a dog house. But yeah, with so many trees and so much land, we should all be able to live a cozy, comfy life. Gov't says that's unacceptable though.
Whenever I visited a bigbox bookstore, I always went straight to the "bargain books" section. There were always big stacks of the political biographies (surprisingly current) marked down to a few dollars, even for hardcovers. I didn't understand until I read that Q drop. BOOK DEALS!
When I was a kid and my mother got exasperated with me she used to ask me "Have you no couth!?". I never knew how to answer because I had no idea what the word meant. I was pretty sure I had none though, based on her tone.
I see it too (in canada). Kids with new trucks putting expensive rims and tires on them, then roaring around town like gas was free. They have good paycheques but no sense of reality. No desire to build a nest egg or a safety net. People eating in restaurants and ordering food to take for lunch the next day. Baffling.
Remember when actor Harry Lennix revealed that Obama learned all his speech and mannerisms from him?
I spent several months working out of a helicopter in the arctic in 1987. There was a period of a few weeks where we were taking off and landing in clouds of "moose flies" as the locals called them. They WERE huge, but they were not made of steel, and yet there was a lot of concern that the rotor blades were being damaged badly. Every day after finishing our work, the engineer would inspect the leading edges and cringe, telling us that he may have to replace them at some outrageous $ figure.
It's funny, but I observed during covid that it was the people considered "well-educated" that were the most susceptible to the coercion. Wife and I created a FB group in spring 2020 to seek out other doubters, and the majority of our group is made up of blue collar, down-to-earth types. The most obedient seem to be the most educated/invested. They have the most to lose, it seems, if they disappoint the overlords.
It's important when saying "official narrative" to contort one's face and mouth so as to convey a sense of non-agreement with what one is saying. Failure to do so puts one at risk of being taken seriously, and rendering one's intended sarcasm void of all effect.