"We shouldn't be surprised that Canada has had the highest food inflation rate among G7 countries for months. Until we recognize that we're suffocating farmers and food companies with trade barriers, excessive regulation, and higher taxes, nothing will change. Food affordability starts with competitiveness."
@McFaul@Coreandor Unfortunately, under the aegis of the EU’s current market and democracy standards, Ukrainian’s would be fools to hitch their long term cart to that dying horse 🤪
The collectivist says the billionaire exploits the workers beneath him. Ayn Rand answered this completely with what she called the pyramid of ability.
In a free economy, the man of greater ability gives far more to those below him than they give to him. The physicist who discovers a principle hands a gift to every engineer who uses it. The industrialist who organizes production raises the wage and the standard of living of every worker he employs. But the reverse isn't true. The workers could never replace him, and could not produce on their own what he makes possible.
As Rand put it: "the man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him."
So the truth is the exact opposite of the Marxist claim. The able man is not the exploiter. He is the benefactor of everyone beneath him, earning in payment only a fraction of the value he creates and spreads to all the rest.
Envy calls that theft. Reality calls it the gift of genius.
@GlobalBC The farm has already been given away by our socialist turds in Victoria and our LPC globalist idjits in Ottawa. This visit is merely window dressing for our MSM 🤮
Just had a fabulous couple nights in Montana, prior to returning to Canada. Bought some wonderful bourbon, cheap gas and watched Canada lose to Switzerland 😢. You fools just don’t understand that you’re cutting off your nose to spite your face 🤪 good luck to you in the future, you’re gonna need it
@sarobertson_ Well then. 🤦🏻♂️
@grok how many actual comprehensive trade agreement and investment agreement are actually signed and ratified/implemented since Carney took office. short answer only.
You can't vote your way out of a Fascist Regime. Once a fascist or authoritarian regime takes hold, it systematically dismantles the democratic mechanisms meant to check its power. Carney has already shut down the committees and used floor crossers to gain a majority, nothing democratic about that at all.
Elon Musk just proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction.
Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.”
Think about what property tax actually means.
You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name.
Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will.
You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with.
Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging.
The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep.
That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first.
Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen.
Now stack all three.
Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children.
At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours.
Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan.
Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone.
The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back.
And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose.
The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year.
SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors.
The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction.
The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect.
The past belonged to the people who taxed the world.
The future belongs to the people who build it.