Taxing their employers to pay for services for everyone?

For sure.

Tax the rich.

You know what’s interesting?

This is also good counterpoint to the “if we tax the rich, they’ll leave!” argument because, when the supply leaves, the demand doesn’t. Just like here, where Canadian (and central/south American, European, African, Asian, etc) products step up to fill the gap, if a rich person fucks off because we’re asking them to pay their fair share, there’s a really good chance that someone less greedy will step in to fill the gap because the demand is still there.

We spend far, far too much time lionizing the supply side of the economy, but it’s the demand-side that really matters.

Are we going to either ensure people get paid enough to afford houses, or build homes that people can afford to live in?

No?

Then no, it won’t get fixed. Right now, the market is making too much money off of exacerbating the problem, and the idea of government providing solutions went out of fashion in 1992.

This and Marathon were why I almost didn’t make it into University.

What’s interesting, or frustrating, is that, on the flip side, American progressives had to endure years of Democrats telling them how things couldn’t be done because they didn’t have enough support for Republicans.

…and then Trump just does things.

We’ve been using “bribe developers” to fill the gap since we stopped building public housing almost fifty years ago. It’s never worked, and it isn’t going to start now

Maybe, and hear me out, here, maybe governments should just build homes directly instead of bribing developers to do it?

The market has no interest in solutions whent there’s very good money to be made on the problem.

Young Americans Are Spending A Whole Lot Less On Video Games This Year

We can increase taxes. It’s an option.

Penne lisce is a capital crime.

The real modern competitor to Amazon could have been Consumers Distributing.

Look, these are Old Stock Hindus…

Poillevre knows that if he doesn’t do shit like this, the rank-and-file CPC members will dump him for someone with stronger Nazi bona fides.

The problem is that, if he wants to be elected, what will get him an easy majority is just not not being Nazi. Chong or Charest could have beaten Trudeau handily.

This is the problem with courting the Nazi vote: it results in your path to power being Nazification of the rest of the electorate, and your PR ends up being low-brow Triumph of the Will, while your election sloganeering is dogwhistling. Personally, I hope he gets sent packing again and the CPC splits in two.

I miss the days of Metrowerks Codewarrior

There’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time…

For a tax that barely affected the income of people who were already very, very rich, they sure did bitch about about it.

Keep your receipts. If you don’t keep your receipts, that’s on you.

Real estate has been a free ride for investors for at least two decades and it’s made people homeless and broken the financial future of at least two generations. I don’t particularly care if house-rich boomers and elder Xers have to keep receipts.

If I was elected Prime Minister, I’d just make real estate agents illegal purely out of spite.

Fucking parasites, all of them. They add no real value to the economy whatsoever.

I wonder if it would help if we banned fly-by-night couriers that Amazon et al use and diverted more of that volume through CP.

They’d be better-paying jobs, too.

It would cut into the capital available to commercial banks, so of course it won’t happen. RBC, TD, CIBC, BMO and Scotia do not want to lose those sweet customer deposits.

Same reason we don’t get public rail and public telecomms: essential services can only be delivered if they make a rich person richer.

“The federal government needs to change their mandate, defending rural areas isn’t profitable so we should scale back the military”

“The provincial government needs to change their mandate, providing healthcare to old people isn’t profitable so we should scale back hospitals and just let them fend for themselves”