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PT6A posted:My "violent fantasies"? gently caress off... It's not even about what should happen to the parents or what your internal thought process and emotional state are immediately after hearing about their criminally negligent behaviour. I actually agree with you more than some of the more liberal posters here saying they don't feel any anger. But this is a politics thread and I don't particularly need to hear somebody else's E/N reaction to what is essentially a tabloid True Crime story. If you find that random news stories are actually inciting feelings of blind rage then keep a diary or maybe start a youtube reaction channel where instead of watching next trailer for Star Wars or Ghost Busters you instead give us your hot take on the latest child abuse stories or which Iraqi village you think should be carpet bombed next. Your reaction is a completely natural and human response to the needless suffering of an infant. What I'm asking you to do is act like a loving adult and not make your gut reaction the topic of a derail that goes on for pages and pages. Maybe try to confine your comments to things that other people in the thread would actually find interesting or insightful in some way rather than just going "hey guys I had a random thought today, let's see if I can get everyone hot take on whatever random thing floated through my brain today." Anyway good job on making me ignore my own advice but for gently caress's sake, stop turning this thread into your personal E/N thread.
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El Scotch posted:NL budget time! Peep 'dat regressive 'Deficit Reduction Levy'  Notice how the right column is arranged so as to imply the rates increase steadily with income, and then check the left column to realize one of those bins is $74 500 - 200 000 Yeah, a $900 levy burden on a $200k earner is totally equivalent to a $300 burden on a $25k earner.
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Helsing posted:It's not even about what should happen to the parents or what your internal thought process and emotional state are immediately after hearing about their criminally negligent behaviour. I actually agree with you more than some of the more liberal posters here saying they don't feel any anger. But this is a politics thread and I don't particularly need to hear somebody else's E/N reaction to what is essentially a tabloid True Crime story. If you find that random news stories are actually inciting feelings of blind rage then keep a diary or maybe start a youtube reaction channel where instead of watching next trailer for Star Wars or Ghost Busters you instead give us your hot take on the latest child abuse stories or which Iraqi village you think should be carpet bombed next. Fair enough. I will point out that I didn't post that story originally, though.
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The federal and provincial governments are all running deficits. Why don't they just raise income tax rates and be done with this constant bleeting.
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Apr 14, 2016 19:42
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Because then they would balance budgets and equal conservatives
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cowofwar posted:The federal and provincial governments are all running deficits. Why don't they just raise income tax rates and be done with this constant bleeting. Because the LPC did but apparently we somehow also did a tax break on it? Also New LPC constitution is up The new membership freeness is section 2.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Because the LPC did but apparently we somehow also did a tax break on it? No just no that's bad even for you
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Ikantski posted:Because then they would balance budgets and equal conservatives I somehow doubt Mulcair would have faced the furious push back he did on balancing the budget if he hadn't also categorically ruled out any income tax increases on both pragmatic and ideological grounds. "We're going to balance the budget, and we'll raise income taxes to do it" is a very different message than "we'll balance the budget no matter what, and higher income taxes would be confiscation so I oppose them as a matter of principle... (p.s. I love Thatcher!)". The balanced budget pledge was when Mulcair went from playing footsie with conservative leaning voters and straight up jumped the shark. bunnyofdoom posted:Because the LPC did but apparently we somehow also did a tax break on it? As I recall it the Liberals very specifically (and incorrectly) advertised the income tax cuts as revenue neutral so that's not even a remotely accurate description of LPC policy. Traditionally when you raise income taxes to help balance the budget you don't end up another billion and change in the fiscal hole. EDIT -  my lovely title is back. I think that's at least $40 other people have given Lowtax on my behalf in the last two weeks. EDIT 2 - Though, to be clear, that was very generous of some anonymous benefactors to purchase those neat MLK and wheel pattern avatars for me. Helsing fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Apr 14, 2016 |
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Apr 14, 2016 20:01
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PT6A posted:Right, I forgot social justice mandates we need to have pity for a bunch of miserable ignorant cunts who let their children die out of pure stupidity. If you actually believe that dumb ignorant retarded people are deserving of death please do this thread a favour and start with yourself.
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Apr 14, 2016 20:02
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jm20 posted:TAXES TAXES TAXES They're closing four court houses, thats going to be problematic.
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Apr 14, 2016 20:09
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Haha, Helsing got probated by fishmech.
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Apr 14, 2016 20:48
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So Gallant has followed NL and is creating bursaries for students from families that make less than $60K.
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El Scotch posted:They're closing four court houses, thats going to be problematic. The courthouses they are closing are really out of the way courts and justice has expected their closure since massive cutbacks a few years ago led to the entire prosecutor's office threatening to quit at once. This budget is extremely regressive. Taxes on gas, HST hike, car insurance tax reinstated, a living levy, and increases on vehicle registration are all to name a view, yet no mention of a new top tax bracket for the province makes me really unhappy for this budget in particular. It is really the incoming liberal government being left with a house that was on fire and no extinguisher around. We had 10 years of public sector spending drastically out pacing provincial growth for the services. It has lead to the province having what I heard was 1/3 people employed in some public sector position, atop a 14.4% unemployment. It is going to be a very rough decade in newfoundland, one that a lot of people are going to see as being very similar to the impact of the cod moratorium.
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Apr 14, 2016 22:00
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The budget stinks and it's infuriating to hear all the 100k earners around me cry the sky is falling when most of the taxes gently caress over the low earners.
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JVNO posted:Peep 'dat regressive 'Deficit Reduction Levy' An even better breakdown of how the levy looks based in income. 
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Newfie posted:An even better breakdown of how the levy looks based in income. How did they even come up with these numbers? Just randomly populate a spreadsheet?
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That's so infuriating. Every "flat" bracket is regressive by default. Then there's a bunch of $2500 brackets that jump by $150, but they're much smaller than the flat brackets, so the overall effect is extremely regressive.
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Newfie posted:The courthouses they are closing are really out of the way courts and justice has expected their closure since massive cutbacks a few years ago led to the entire prosecutor's office threatening to quit at once. I'd they're expecting people to travel to Goose Bay for court they're in for a world of pain.
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Why are Canadians so attached to the idea that they have the right to live in Bumfuck Nowhere while suffering no negative consequences Just Because? At least First Nations have the excuse of the reserves being put there. White people are just too loving stubborn to move, as far as I can tell.
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A Typical Goon posted:Why do people live in Newfoundland? are you kidding me? have you met the people that live in these shitholes?
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I can't wait until the entire country is compressed down to 6 cities having a giant FIRE circlejerk.
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It turns out it's hard to get people to move. NL already went through a few rounds of resettlement in the 50s/60s/70s to reduce the number of small communities.
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brucio posted:Stop, please Don't these guys have advisors or secretaries or something to keep them from arguing with the anonymous hoi polloi on twitter because lol
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A Typical Goon posted:Why do people live in Newfoundland? I live in PEI and it's about a thousand times better than living in Montreal or Toronto from a quality of life perspective. Six-figs helps.  I live like a king.
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EvilJoven posted:I can't wait until the entire country is compressed down to 6 cities having a giant FIRE circlejerk. Canada as a nation makes no sense once we stop being Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water. mik posted:I live in PEI and it's about a thousand times better than living in Montreal or Toronto from a quality of life perspective. You have a unique definition of quality of life. Edit: Actually, conflating "I never have to see brown people" with quality of life isn't that unique in Canada. infernal machines fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Apr 14, 2016 |
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mik posted:I live in PEI and it's about a thousand times better than living in Montreal or Toronto from a quality of life perspective. Six-figs helps. PEI: better than Toronto and Montreal. I mean I probably wouldn't live in either city but come the gently caress on
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mik posted:I live in PEI and it's about a thousand times better than living in Montreal or Toronto yet another reason why canadians are dumb a f
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If I made a great income and had internet access I'd love to live in PEI during the summer.
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PT6A posted:Right, I forgot social justice mandates we need to have pity for a bunch of miserable ignorant cunts who let their children die out of pure stupidity. 
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Also friendly reminder that this is all coming from the guy who thinks it's perfectly okay to show up to work hammered and murder a dude because you're a loving idiot because it's an unavoidable tragedy and nobody could have done anything about it and oh the poor dear does he feel bad about being held responsible for his actions? Oh poor baby.
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Jordan7hm posted:If I made a great income and had internet access I'd love to live in PEI during the summer. Yes, but the point is you can't unless you're offering professional services in one of the aforementioned cities because no one wants anything from PEI.
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https://twitter.com/gmbutts/status/558031167837179906 Indeed, Mister Butts. Indeed.
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Not everyone thinks that the best thing in life is going back and forth from their office tower to their apartment complex via subway in Toronto. I had that and I hated it so much I moved to Winnipeg to escape poo poo, now I'm looking at giving up my office tower for a grain elevator full time, if I can swing it. I'd move from Winnipeg to somewhere smaller if I could convince my wife to come with me.
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PT6A posted:Why are Canadians so attached to the idea that they have the right to live in Bumfuck Nowhere while suffering no negative consequences Just Because? Some people tell you to move to Buttfuck BC so you can afford housing on the other you have people saying you have no right to affordably live in Buttfuck Anywhere because it's too remote which is it you fucks?!
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living in a grain elevator would rule, youd be some kinda hosed up prairie vampire in yer wheat belfry
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El Scotch posted:I'd they're expecting people to travel to Goose Bay for court they're in for a world of pain. Yeah, we're likely going to have video appearances happening for a lot of these cases to deal with that. cowofwar posted:How did they even come up with these numbers? Just randomly populate a spreadsheet?
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Sage advice from Harper's son. http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/harper-and-vera-fiscal-malpractice-history-shows-this-is-no-time-to-be-racking-up-deficits
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