toastmeister

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[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In the most bureaucratic industry in Canada with the highest taxes?

If this is your idea of capitalism I'd say its a bit silly, people can't just build a 12 story apartment to service the demand, nimbys had it shut it down since the 1920s when they were redlining and not much has changed.

Its actually gotten far worse, there used to be loopholes like the Vancouver special, which were closed in the early 90s. Environmental and parking requirements were also much less.

Even provinces that did rezone very recently like BC are still littered with bureaucracy. This rezoning also should have been done a decade before we did 4% annual population growth, a logical order of operations that doesn't destroy the poor.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DX_-UcC14xw

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

If you want systemic change to the economic system there's definitely an order of operations here to follow, wouldn't you agree?

If I want to redesign a roller coaster my first step shouldn't be to start removing the tracks while passengers are on it.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I agree. High demand from immigration; lack of supply due to greenbelt, slow permitting, property taxes being passed on as development taxes, and urban sprawl zoning.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Why nationalize only oil, why not manufacturing, mining, lumber, hydro, etc..?

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I have a birth bath I don't ever replace the water in. Its like a shrub to me.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Alberta has no alternatives to export so loses a lot by shipping to the US. Alberta has a huge amount to gain by having alternative shipping routes. I think they'd be happy with things and the media would change their opinion pretty quickly.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca -2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Its concluding that if Alberta leaves Quebec will be screwed, so its in Quebecs interest to allow a pipeline to prevent secession. The tariffs on manufacturing emboldens this with an even larger crisis. The long term plan would be to end the reliance on Russian energy, assuming its true, but it seems to be unfolding as predicted so far which is neat.

Heres who was predicting it, starting about 28 minutes in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHNWDawcQo

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

What if I'm against immigration due to a housing bubble that is destroying the poor and dramatically increasing price to income ratios, am I a racist or a saint?

I think anyone with a brain can see that in many countries mass immigration is being used to depress wages and invert the phillips curve after QE, or to prop up GDP to avoid a technical recession in favor of a per-capita recession, which is for some reason not defined or acknowledged. It also clearly hurts the poor and benefits the rich via asset price inflation and higher rental income.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

China produces the bulk of rare earths the US uses for things like military production, which puts the US as dependent on China as Canada is dependent on the US. The reality is absurd no matter which way things go.

Europe is doing carbon border adjustments to attempt to do something similar if I'm not mistaken, though its still early stages.

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