He has brought up before that the US government used to get its revenue from tariffs before income taxes were introduced.
The US is running ginormous deficits but their religion doesn’t allow them to raise taxes. So this might be his least bad option (talking about his internal politics, not the actual economics) to start addressing his deficit.
Awesome ✊
I think we need to be organizing as well, not just individually reacting. Join things, not just show up for things, you know? To the best of our ability of course.
So, the rich are organizing. What are you doing?
Just from the title, I knew the man that the cop was standing on top of is indigenous.
We are also known for our self deprecating humour. the Beaverton is like the Canadian Onion.
Personne ne fuck avec le Canada sauf nous autres. C’est clair ça, câliss?
Sure, but so can the federal government do to Alberta. Politically too, the one huge disadvantage that Alberta has over any non-conservative federal government is that it votes too reliably conservative (I mean, if the feds twist their arm, what are they going to do next election, not vote liberal? – that’s why QC has the ROC by the balls by the way). So if it comes to Fed+ON-BC-QC vs AB …good luck.
Section 91(2) of the Constitution Act, 1867 assigns responsibility for trade and commerce to the federal government. The provinces can oppose, protest, and pressure the federal government on tariffs, but they have no legal authority to override them.
Alberta can do fuck all about tariffs. That’s federal jurisdiction.
Of course not all. But the US electorate as a body produced this decision. When your congress passes a law or your supreme court makes a decision do you not say that “the congress” passed a law or “the supreme court” made a judgement? I doubt you constantly say “a bit more than half the congress passed a law #notallcongresspeople”.
Or, when, say France has an election, do you not say “the french elected Macron”? Or do you always nuance it by “this or that percentage of the french elected him”?
This must be a yank version of the no true Scotsman fallacy.
That’s what Trump wants.
Did he crunch an apple while doing it too? What a douche.
If he excludes oil from the tarrifs, we should increase the price of oil exports ourselves.
Oh hey, he’s saying the thing the Democrats should have campaigned on.
If “legacy media” in this country is to the left of Poilievre that just means that Poilievre has gone off the right end. I mean, the legacy media includes such bastions of left politics as the National Post, the Globe and Mail, etc.
a) He’s right and you know he’s right. Doomscrolling is not healthy and tech companies maximize engagement regardless of the addiction and mental health implications.
b) He was talking about the state of journalism and in that specific context what he said makes even more sense.
c) That epic sculpture he’s sitting in front of is sick and looks like what a comic book corrupt cardinal would be sitting in front of while threatening batman or something.
d) Fuck the church institutions that cover up decades of abuse and horrible crimes.
I see a bunch of slush just waiting to be splashed over.
I don’t debate the insanity of the economics of it. I’m saying they have a problem the solution for which is raising taxes but their stupid religion (bootlicking capital) doesn’t allow it, so he’s trying to raise revenue this way.