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WATCH above for Brian Lilley’s visceral take!

Justin Trudeau thinks you should go to work and pay taxes so other people don’t have to.

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No, I’m not talking about him or many of his useless cabinet ministers.

Trudeau is embracing the idea that everyone in Canada should have a guaranteed annual income.

Ontario just went through this program as a pilot project and scrapped it with the arrival of the Doug Ford’s PC government.

Well, now Trudeau wants to resurrect this idea and take it national.

Yes, I know that prominent economists, such as the late Milton Friedman, have supported the idea.

So what?

It’s still stupid.

In theory, which is what economists work in, this might work. In theory, communism is a warm and loving system that looks after everyone. Talk to anyone that has lived under communism and they will tell you it is a brutal and awful system that oppresses people.

But hey, it works — in theory.