Beer drinkers of Canada, unite

So what's the most offensive part of the Financial Post's report on the bank sector's policy preferences?

Is it the Post's willingness to publish ideas to address poverty ranging from tax slashing for the rich, all the way to tax slashing for the poor?

Or is it Tom Velk's embarrassing explanation as to why he favours the former?

“I would really dispute Mr. Clark’s notion that we need to give money to the beer drinkers,” McGill University economist Thomas Velk said Thursday. “We can’t afford it."