pipsqueak1984 @ northmaple1984 @lemmy.ca

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Many construction materials aren't only affected by the Canadian economy, we are a very small part of it even if the material is produced here (ex. if it's more profitable to export why would a company sell locally?). If global demand goes up prices here go up regardless of the situation.

Also, that money you've made isn't real "made" until you sell, it's an unrealised gain.

Yet, it's the working class that has the burden of financing all of this.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/wealthy-canadians-fair-share-taxes-1.7179031

Top 20% earning families pay over 60% of income taxes. Doesn't sound like the working class is financing most of it.

Meanwhile companies get tax breaks and subsidies.

Yeah, this needs to end, 100% agree on this point.

Maybe I don't give a fuck if it's a for-profit news publisher? History shows that entirely government funded news sources turn out much worse.

Want to know why material and labour costs are up? Because we have to pay more for land for businesses, and wages so people can afford homes. It's a carryon effect of land values increasing.

This might be a small part of it, but many materials are market commodities that have a lot more behind them than just land values - think copper, steel, lumber.

Also, your entire comment presupposes that land value is causing inflation rather than that land value is reflecting inflation. Land doesn't print money, governments do, and banks do with debt - a direct consequence of a fractional banking, which is regulated by the government.

Gaming works pretty damn well as far as I'm concerned, the few that I can't get to work are irrelevant.

I'm keeping Windows around for work... fuck Autodesk and fuck Dassault. So I am trying to get a VM with GPU pass through to work (had it working once but then I screwed it up and now I can't seem to get it working again).

Fucking hell, government willing to do everything except what's actually needed: reduce housing demand, reduce wage suppression, reduce inflation.

Taxing the rich doesn't solve wage suppression and housing demand. It could be used to help solve inflation if the government committed to use the additional taxation to reduce the money supply rather than spend it, but I doubt that's what you had in mind.

So, sorry, we probably should look into our tax regime but it's not the silver bullet you think it is.

Apart from being a terrible idea that almost exclusively targets the middle class (because poor people don't own property and rich people should be diversified enough that it doesn't matter), this does nothing to address what are three of the biggest factors in housing costs:

1. Housing demand (current population increase rate is not sustainable and it shows in areas other than housing)
2. Inflation (material and labour costs are up something like 40% or more since 2020)
3. Wage suppression (very much related to (1))

And the kicker to this is that dealing with the three items above will fix a lot more than just housing, whereas your idea doesn't.

Sorry, I no longer realise what is and isn't paywalled because I have the extension that bypasses the paywall so I don't know it's even there.

Get an extension to bypass the lay wall, easy-peasy

I haven't used Reddit in a while, but back when I did, r/canada was alt-right and I doubt it had real Canadians on it. It seemed like a Russian troll farm like r/the_donald. The actual Canadian subreddit seemed to be r/onguardforthee.

You need to get out of your bubble of you think /r/onguardforthee is more representative of the Canadian population than /r/canada, and if you think /r/canada is alt-right.

I personally don't read or watch anything that isn't put out by the CBC, which has a mandate to be politically neutral.

That may be an official mandate, but it definitely not followed. Prime example is when sued the CPC during the election (which eventually was tossed by a judge). How many times have they sued other political parties during elections?

Males worldwide are swinging hard to the right. It's concerning.

Yes, the problem is the men. Thanks.

To be honest, my level of trust in the CPC isn't all that greater than the LPC... marginally more at best.

From Progressive perspective the NDP is preventing a bad government turning even worse.

This is absolute bullshit, the NDP have been Liberal enablers since 2019. If they were actually serious about stopping the Liberals Singh wouldn't be voting with them in the HoC.

I'm surprised this is this far down.

Yes, there's several social changes that need to happen, but there's people that will committee crime regardless. Those people need to be kept separate from society.

I'm not certain the NDP has done more than the CPC, but of they have it's been outweighed by propping up all the other bullshit of this government.

How many times now has Singh chastised the Liberals but supported the very same policies anyways when it actually came down to votes in Parliament?

My point about it being the CPC's job to oppose is that it's not their job to come up with ideas.

Edit: Basically, my view is that although the NDP have done a few positive things (as have the Liberals) they've been a net negative on the country since 2019 whereas the CPC net is basically zero because the odd few things they've tried to do other than oppose, both positive and negative, don't pass in Parliament. IMHO the biggest positive thing that has happened since 2019 the CPC and NDP (and Bloc) voted together on against the Liberals: when they stopped the Liberals from assuming unaccountable emergency power right at the beginning of the pandemic... It's too bad this alliance didn't continue.

You said that the NDP has done more for Canadians than the CPC, so since the CPC's job is to oppose the government can you point out when they failed to do that to the detriment of Canadians?

The CPC is His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, their job is to oppose the His Majesty's Government (aka the Liberals). Can you point our where he has failed at this?

Well get ready for it then, because despite Harris increasing the odds of the Democrats winning my money is still on Trump. You don't have to like the guy (I don't, I would've preferred if another Republican candidate won the primaries) to look at it objectively; too many people are letting their emotions influence their thought process on who will win.

Here's the party policies:

https://cpcassets.conservative.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/23175001/990863517f7a575.pdf

As for a plan... why the actual fuck would he reveal anything substantial now? The CPC is His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, it's their job to oppose. It's not their job to come up with stuff, that's for the governing party (the LPC) and, through the confidence and supply agreement, the NDP. Do you understand how the British Westminster system that we use works? Maybe once the election is in full swing the "no plan" argument will be a valid one, but it's not now.

He's our Trump.

Lol, hyperbole much?