@ewsiddall The word “only” is terrifyingly small minded. How about stop taxing HST on new builds - instant 13% price reduction. Extend amortization based on age of buyer? Reduce red tape for developers? Make interest on mortgage tax deductible (like US). C’mon! So many levers!
Read the original post. It’s about Norway vs Canada in carbon taxes. @tylermeredith is defending the idea that carbon tax is a good thing and citing Norway as an example. I was responding saying we are already taxed to death in Canada and don’t need any more taxes to fund useless government. So, again, you’re standing out in left field here pal.
@Mattxduchak@RichardDias_CFA@tylermeredith What makes you think I don’t know. Or has your moral superiority and navel gazing gotten your mind so far up your own ass that you just see shit for brains everywhere?
@RichardDias_CFA@tylermeredith Norway has the population of Toronto and is not a federation.
What is stupid is the idea that you can compare economies and suggest we need more taxes to fund more government in Canada.
Brilliant. As usual. Food for thought? Michelin food…
The question at its core … has economic policy become merely the management of forces presumed beyond democratic control?
Is self-government merely the freedom to choose leaders who administer EXISTING systems?
Or
Is self-government the freedom of a people to decide what those systems should ultimately be for?
While the technocrats tried to convince people for years of the inevitability of “global economic forces” the real question is not fundamentally an economic question - but about democracy itself.
What Trump has challenged Americans to consider is… What should a nation collectively value?
- What should be made at home?
- Should family formation be encouraged through tax policy?
- Should foreign ownership of strategic assets be limited.
While Carney gets applauded in Davos, Trump is the true intellectual of the day - asking the right questions.
100%. This is not some right wing blowhard obscurity. It is a natural response to globalization which marginalized vast amounts of the industrial based and concentrated wealth in the hands of a few while hollowing out the middle class. Canada could literally take this playbook and become the richest country on Earth in a per capita basis. Instead, we loath Trump and double down on globalization. Insanity.
Tiff Macklem should have been fired years ago. He failed in his basic mandate. This is a man who failed to account for ultra-low rates and QE at the same time while telling consumers they would keep rates low for “a long time” only to panic and raise those rates in early 2022 when the impact of ultra low rates and QE became too severe on one sector, housing.
He’s a god damn idiot.
@Mike_Leach1976@PierrePoilievre Huh??? But the liberal policies are actually causing the suffering??? He’s the official opposition. What is he supposed to do? Cheer on the liberals and their failures?
You’re an idiot.
@calgaryjohn403@nationalpost Great weather? Is your only frame of reference Calgary? We are the second coldest capital in the G7 and one of the coldest in the developed world.