Taking on debt is normal in a government budget. In fact you have to take on debt to be able to develop your country. As long as it remains below a certain percentage of the IGP, we're fine.
What this government fails to do, as all previous government failed to do for the past 40 years, is to tax the super wealthy and close tax loopholes.
Americans don't even realize how deep in shit they are. You tell them about this and they throw their hands up in the air saying "what do you want me to do?" like it's a lost cause.
I just want to see them riot. I want them to actually start using their 2nd amendment for its intended purpose.
The Black Panthers did it before to protect the black communities.
Imagine ICE agents showing up to kidnap someone but they're surrounded by an armed population. They'd think twice before kidnapping that person.
Yes I am. Because MAGAts are already shooting up gay bars and clubs, assaulting and killing elected democrat politicians and holding fucking neo-Nazi marches against the LGBT. The Trump administration is already using violence. They're sending ICE to kidnap both legal and illegal immigrants that have constitutional rights and sending them to prisons in foreign countries without a warrant or even a trial. They're sending the fucking national guard and the matines against your asses and building alligator Alcatraz to hold you there. And Trump and his goons are saying the Supreme Court judges can't stop him if he does anything illegal or unconstitutional. He's gone full dictator.
If that's not reason enough for people to start bearing arms, then I don't know what does and you guys and everybody else in the world are fucked.
If YOU don't bear arms, soon I'll have to, in order to kill your asses when you start invading Canada. And I swear to you that I won't hesitate to pull that trigger.
9/11, 2008 economic crash, Iraq/Afghan war and unrest in the Middle-East, a global pandemic, the rise in fascism and erosion of our rights and freedoms, genocide, potential world war, and now another dust bowl like event and the destruction of our eco system.
I've been thinking of starting one in my neighborhood for a while. There's a grocery store that closed down and the space is still available. Fridges and all!
But it's quite the enterprise. And you have to deal with disagreable people who want control. I have some experience working with groups in clubs and things like that.
The tax was announced in 2020, but the legislation to enact it didn't pass until last year. While it has been in effect for a year, the first payment, retroactive to 2022, was to be submitted on June 30.
The government intended it to overcome what Canada saw as a tax loophole, with big tech companies operating in Canada digitally, making money off Canadian users and data, but not paying tax on it in Canada.
The tax was to apply to companies that operate online marketplaces, online advertising services and social media platforms, and those that earn revenue from some sales of user data.
It meant companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber and Airbnb, would pay a three-per-cent levy on revenue from Canadian users.
The tax was only to cover large companies, those that have worldwide annual revenues greater than 750 million euros per year and Canadian digital services revenue greater than $20 million per year. The parliamentary budget officer had estimated it would bring in $7.2 billion over five years.
That seemed fair. He cancelled it to appease Trump, clearly. This is extremely disappointing. And we're also losing $7.2 billion in revenue over 5 years. This could have helped fund Canadian cultural projects, artists, or finance our struggling media industry.
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What a fucking joke!