Its called military keynesianism. Its how the US creates dollars, which are then imported into Europe and the globe.
Places like Europe, Canada, and China maintain a net export with the US, importing USD, which stabilizes their currency. The US imports debt and runs a large deficits in order to supply USD to the world. This is what Trump seemingly wants to milk to drop corporate tax, and thus Europe now has to build up their military, in order for their economic system to continue to function without USD.
Actually its generally new buyers who haven't used or benefited from the infrastructure paying to maintain and replace it. Which is the opposite of how it should be.
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Canada actually has a problem with productivity investment, likely because we have too high of taxes, and due to capital shallowing due to our mass immigration.
"I want to talk about Canada's longstanding poor record on productivity, and convince you just how big of a problem it is. You know those signs that say 'in case of emergency break glass', well its time to break the glass."
Eminent domain exists in most countries. Just as you cant block upstream water from someone else you generally cant block resource development in the national interest.
Our highways are a good example of this, I'm assuming we all like having the roads that have helped create our current standard of living?
Much of Europe definitely stored their gold in the US during and after WWII due to Bretton Woods, which ended in 1971 when Germany and France wanted its gold back due to the overprinted dollars of the Great Society act of the 60s.
What everyone doesn't understand is that we are not just fighting for ourselves, its a fight to protect the future of our people and of all Ontario and all Canada as well. Unrestrained and uncontrolled resource development only destroys the land, air and water ... the same land, air and water we all share no matter our race, group or identity.
Canada has had the worst per capita GDP growth in the 38 countries of the OECD losing to inflation since 2015, and some people think that could hurt people via defunding our social safety net and basic infrastructure, including the tens of billions that go to indigenous people. I dont think its so simple as you make it out, and more of the same would be a death knell for Canada.
80% of the land in our largest cities is zoned for single family homes. Our developer fees and taxes are also 1/3 the cost of a home and are some of the largest taxes in the world. Bureaucracy takes ages in Canada for permitting, some of the slowest in the world.
Its fully government contricted, basically a form of price controls via single family home exclusivity, and huge taxes to artificially drop property taxes on existing urban sprawl; so of course there would be shortages.
Ship it to the same country we ship all our recycling. Out of site out of mind, Canada is so green.