The hypocrisy is what gets me... Yeah, axe the tax... But let the forests keep burning, the rain keep flooding, the heat keep broiling people and droughts starving us...
It's not rocket surgery... Make the thing that is bad for us more expensive, and use that money to make things that are good for us LESS expensive. I still don't know why there isn't a tax on gasoline and diesel and natural gas that doesn't DIRECTLY fund public transit...
Just wait until you find out his brother wrote a one-page memo on mayoral letterhead, cancelling a transit project that had been years in the making, and with the stroke of a pen costing the city nearly $100 million dollars in wasted effort and cancellation penalties. Oh, and the beneficiaries are the same construction-and-development types that Drug Fraud is courting with changing zoning laws and paving over agricultural land for an expressway that nobody asked for.
Trudeau underestimates how many people will vote against their own best interests because of a grudge.
And when their social services are cut, and they're made homeless, or sick / dead / disabled because they couldn't get the healthcare they needed, they'll still find a way to blame anyone other than the people responsible for extending their misery.
Man, I can't wait until government schmuck decides that the stock I bought that dropped 80% over the course of the pandemic is 'unfair' and I should be compensated. Absolutely utter bullshit.
If their gamble on real estate didn't work out, take the hit, sell at a loss, and learn your lesson.
No fucking wonder people can't buy a starter home anymore.
Uh, who says he's going to inherit anything? Election hasn't happened yet, and there's still lots of opportunities for him to expose himself as a fascist.
Heh. After Dad died, my Mom shacked up with a guy we met while Dad was in the hospital. He went to the same high school as me, the same year I did. He's lazy, broke, bipolar and unmedicated by choice - and a rabid far-right conspiracy theorist... So technically, she's supporting an adult child.
I'm doing just fine, thanks. :D
Wow, this sounds just like a Conservative rant about how dirty and evil and bad cities are, written to be consumed by folks from the burbs who haven't been downtown for 25+ years.
What? NatPo is owned by an American hedge fund? Quelle surprise.
Yes... Let's re-open this bucket of bullshit. When they left for Ottawa, they had a written declaration and were planning on overthrowing the democratically elected government with some ridiculously ignorant idea for dissolving parliament and placing themselves in control.
This is too stupid to not be plain old grift.
Keep voting against your own interests, and keep reaping the rewards, Alberta!
Danielle Smith: Letting 5 year olds decide what's for dinner and when to go to bed.
And kids don't want to eat their vegetables or go to bed on time... Sometimes people need to be encouraged to do the thing they don't want to do, but is only in their best interest.
The stupidest part of this whole thing is now easy it would be to set up in a way that people could accept...
Levy a small carbon tax, nation wide, on all energy, for all users. The carbon tax goes into a fund, which is re-distributed to encourage the right behaviour:
Please, steal this idea.
Essentially, you outsource the blocking to your VPN server in that scenario. You can have a blocklist of advertisers, trackers, or bad-behaviour like SSH/HTTPS scans, etc. You would generally download a list of misbehaving netblocks and block them on your firewall, then download a list of known-bad domain names, and block them from being resolved by DNS (i.e. just return 127.0.0.1, which is your local device, which always fails)