Legitimately a frontrunner in the “Most Obvious and Frustrating Problem our Society Faces” race.
> First, we need a wealth tax….Second, we need to crack down on tax havens.
Sure, fine. Agree.
The problem isn’t really the technical details of how to fix this (I don’t think). The problem is how are we ever going to implement them?
The second you bring any of this up you’re immediately drowned in a wave of “the billionaires will leave us if we aren’t nice to them!”. We’re on a knife’s edge from electing a party that will absolutely hand the keys over to the rich and corporations even more than we already are.
Who is going to champion this? How do we ever get politicians to talk about it seriously?
bigjimbay on
I can’t wait until the money from all Carney’s trade deals trickle down in 5 or 10 years. My entire tent city will be able to afford coffee! Maybe
It’s really hard to watch the rich continue to grow fatter and fatter while the lower classes suffer, and our elitist banker PM doing nothing about it.
Life is so easy when you can blame all your countries problems on trump and trudeau. Just tax the rich, if they leave who gives a shit that opens up more of the pie for others.
FearIs_LaPetiteMort on
Unfortunately I think we’re fucked until/if the majority of the civilized world collectively agrees that capitalism can’t basically be a zero sum game (which the ultra wealthy are clearly winning). “In theory”, workers should be organizing and demanding a larger and fairer slice of the pie. “In theory”, governments should be taxing the wealthy closer to historic (high) rates. Particularly once reaching generational wealth levels.
“In practice”, Canadian workers are at the mercy of remaining at least somewhat competitive globally for wages or jobs will indeed largely go elsewhere. “In practice”, we live next door to the world’s largest economy who’s entire ethos is based on a winners and losers and race to the bottom mentality, which we’re forced to compete with for investment dollars, and hence taxation. “In practice” there’s only so much the Canadian government can do to effect those things.
As “Neo-Liberal” as Carney/the Liberals/the WEF clearly are unfortunately, the things he touched on in the Davos speech are the baby steps likely required to at least head in an appropriate direction. If you have enough middle powers agree on a framework of fairness, cooperation, trade, laws etc, you can eventually start to move towards an equitable pay and taxation situation if you have a large enough block of agreement on those things.
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Legitimately a frontrunner in the “Most Obvious and Frustrating Problem our Society Faces” race.
> First, we need a wealth tax….Second, we need to crack down on tax havens.
Sure, fine. Agree.
The problem isn’t really the technical details of how to fix this (I don’t think). The problem is how are we ever going to implement them?
The second you bring any of this up you’re immediately drowned in a wave of “the billionaires will leave us if we aren’t nice to them!”. We’re on a knife’s edge from electing a party that will absolutely hand the keys over to the rich and corporations even more than we already are.
Who is going to champion this? How do we ever get politicians to talk about it seriously?
I can’t wait until the money from all Carney’s trade deals trickle down in 5 or 10 years. My entire tent city will be able to afford coffee! Maybe
It’s really hard to watch the rich continue to grow fatter and fatter while the lower classes suffer, and our elitist banker PM doing nothing about it.
Life is so easy when you can blame all your countries problems on trump and trudeau. Just tax the rich, if they leave who gives a shit that opens up more of the pie for others.
Unfortunately I think we’re fucked until/if the majority of the civilized world collectively agrees that capitalism can’t basically be a zero sum game (which the ultra wealthy are clearly winning). “In theory”, workers should be organizing and demanding a larger and fairer slice of the pie. “In theory”, governments should be taxing the wealthy closer to historic (high) rates. Particularly once reaching generational wealth levels.
“In practice”, Canadian workers are at the mercy of remaining at least somewhat competitive globally for wages or jobs will indeed largely go elsewhere. “In practice”, we live next door to the world’s largest economy who’s entire ethos is based on a winners and losers and race to the bottom mentality, which we’re forced to compete with for investment dollars, and hence taxation. “In practice” there’s only so much the Canadian government can do to effect those things.
As “Neo-Liberal” as Carney/the Liberals/the WEF clearly are unfortunately, the things he touched on in the Davos speech are the baby steps likely required to at least head in an appropriate direction. If you have enough middle powers agree on a framework of fairness, cooperation, trade, laws etc, you can eventually start to move towards an equitable pay and taxation situation if you have a large enough block of agreement on those things.