No tax - only cut!

Of all the things to cut tax on, this is probably the best… way better than the gas tax perma-vacation Wab gave us. But I’m not gonna lie, I’d rather we target the rampant supply chain monopolies, retailer monopolies, etc. I mean shit, Safeway has an agreement t with the City of Winnipeg to disallow other grocery stores within 1km or something like that. It’s illegal to open competition! Go after that! But no, North Americans can only conceptualize tax cuts.

Yes, I’m aware that “did not vote” wins every US election. But that doesn’t change the fact that the plurality of US voters chose Trump, and enough of them still do that it doesn’t matter. The system is reflecting the will of the people accurately… if Republicans wanted, they could primary every single MAGA shithead and elect Republicans willing to impeach him. They won’t. Because they still believe.

Because their voters want them to. People love to act like 40% of Americans wouldn’t vote for Trump right now if asked to, but they would. He could rape a baby live on TV and the evangelicals would tell their congregations that at least he’s not a Democrat. The system isn’t broken, it’s giving the American population what they want. They just want stupid shit and more dead brown people.

Everyone’s acting like Trump is a fluke but he’s not. Republican voters would never primary their candidates to be less MAGA nor will they ever vote D. The best we can hope for is them going silent and not voting.

More or less productive than not reading the article and then commenting blatantly incorrect statements while leading with “the article is wrong”?

Like if you didn’t read it that’s fine, but then why comment? And why comment on the facts of the article? The $160 number and $260 number are in the same sentence, how do you read one and not the other?

It’s even one thing to be wrong, but to be wrong and confidently assert that the article is wrong? Just wild behavior imo.

It’s going up to 164 for a 10 year within Canada, 260 something from outside Canada. $164/$160 != “a much bigger increase than 2.7%”. God I wish people could read sometimes.

I would love to see some surveys showing that the plurality of Canadian armed forces members support US annexation.

Yes there’s a lot of conservative dipshits in Canada but even in Alberta they’re a minority.

I mean, a weaker currency really does boost your export value. That’s why Canadian farmers tend to consider the weaker CAD a benefit - they get paid more CAD per yuan when exporting soy or canola for example.

The issue is that the US intentionally positioned itself with a strong dollar so they can import stuff cheaper. The deal for American “exorbitant privilege” was essentially “hey America, you can have the world as your shopping mall with a strong currency for cheap imported goods, but in exchange you’ll provide the backing for collective defense with your extra budget, stay stable, and buy our goods”. Trump wants to have his cake and eat it too, maintaining the effective global tax via USD transactions but also have a weaker dollar for Amerixan exporters.

US consumers like cheap phones, TVs, imported fruits, and travel. The strong dollar is a necessity for this. Much of the US debt is heavily subsidized as a side effect of a strong dollar as part of that exorbitant privilege exchange. They can have their weaker dollar but they’ll lose the benefits from it and I don’t think they’ll accept that easily. Throwing all that away to strengthen your export market is deeply foolish, but the mechanisms at play do work generally as they claim.

Usually that also includes “didn’t respond”/DR/NR. I would assume this was a multi question survey and that 17% includes at least some DR/NR.

We should absolutely be divesting from any I fustry that requires US cooperation to be profitable. Not only that but US automakers have stagnated, resting on their laurels and refusing to innovate thanks for deep protectionist schemes. Time to retool our steel and aluminum refining and manufacturing industries to make something that’s not poorly built backwards cars.

I believe I misread something - the majority of the accused are Somali-American, although there are some large damages caused by non-Somali people as well. I’ll delete my original comment as misleading.