A short YouTube monologue (creator: Jayson Lowe) questioning whether Canadians should trust the government with their financial future. The speaker highlights an irony: the government created tax problems yet also creates solutions like the Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), and uses a blunt metaphor (punch in the eye then handing ice) to argue this undermines trust in government solutions.
Okay, so who created the tax problem? The government. And didn't you just say earlier that the government is the one who created the Registered Retirement Savings Plan to help us reduce our tax burden and to save for the future? Unusual. The one who created the problem is also creating the solution to the problem. Yeah, so it's like, okay, hey, I'm going to punch you in the eye and make your eye bleed, but then I'm going to hand you some ice. Like, are you really going to trust me to not punch you again? You know what I mean? It's like, this guy's a problem. He's violent. Oh, he's got. Oh, there. He's got ice. No worries. We're all good. Just seems like kind of a interesting thing just to think about using logic to say, okay, I've got a tax problem that they created, but yet they've got the ultimate solution to help me reduce that tax burden.
