My feelings are one thing, and I feel frightened for the people I work with on a day-to-day basis. I feel very saddened, and it's very frustrating to know that we know what to do and that there are mechanisms in place to appropriately deal with it. That we're not doing it is extraordinarily frustrating, personally and professionally.
I want to appreciate your pointing out the hypocrisy between the ways in which people who received individual income benefits during a real crisis are being treated versus, for example, larger corporations that received wage subsidy programs and then seemed to lose their integrity over time. There were CEOs receiving very large bonuses while receiving the wage subsidy who were not paying the kinds of corporate taxes they should be paying or finding loopholes or storing money in offshore tax havens.
Those are the places where the federal government should be investing resources to generate revenue. Close those loopholes, implement an extreme wealth tax and generate revenues that can then be reinvested to support the families.