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Maneck posted:The Globe and Mail is utterly adrift from reality.
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Apr 18, 2024 22:44
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ZShakespeare posted:Yeah it's good, but it's also just drops in the bucket. A huge amount of people have nothing to look forward to in the future because they constantly see things getting worse and worse and more unaffordable for them and no one is really addressing the problem. IMO it's also seen as just vote pandering and wasteful spending to "accelerate" affordable housing when the alarms were going off in 2015 after they were elected and also now that I googled their election promise. https://liberal.ca/trudeau-promises-affordable-housing-for-canadians/ quote:TORONTO – Liberals will invest in the middle class and those working hard to join it by making it easier to find an affordable place to call home, said the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Justin Trudeau, today. Here we are almost 10 years later with housing more unaffordable than ever, I don't begrudge someone being pissed on and told to expect that the LPC to magically start fixing the problem now.
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Apr 18, 2024 22:47
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quote:While in government [Adam Vaughn] served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister as well as the Parliamentary Secretary for Housing under the Ministers responsible for Families, Children and Social Development. Adam was one of the architects of the new National Housing Strategy and redesigned the federal approach to fighting homelessness and he led consultations and reported to cabinet on the development of a National Strategy for Urban, Rural and Northern Indigenous Housing. gently caress Adam Vaughn. I wonder where he landed since he left government? https://navltd.com/team/adam-vaughan/
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Apr 18, 2024 22:56
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Maneck posted:Our family does well. Two professional incomes. We own a home in a major urban area. Also I think it's per individual based on everything I've heard, so a couple could realize a gain of $500,000 without hitting the threshold. And that's not pulling $500,000 out of an investment, that's making an actual $500k gain. It is such a large amount of money that frankly it's unreasonable to give a poo poo about any hardship it causes.
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Apr 18, 2024 22:57
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PT6A posted:Also I think it's per individual based on everything I've heard, so a couple could realize a gain of $500,000 without hitting the threshold. And that's not pulling $500,000 out of an investment, that's making an actual $500k gain. It is such a large amount of money that frankly it's unreasonable to give a poo poo about any hardship it causes. I would happily eat a income tax increase and see the 50% rule on capital gains abolished if it meant the government began a trillion dollar public housing construction marathon and constructed a high speed rail system along the Quebec-Windsor corridor.
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Apr 18, 2024 22:59
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Mr. Apollo posted:A couple of days ago, the news was saying that oil companies are passing on the cost of switching to summer blend gas and the carbon tax. However, today they're just mentioning the summer blend switch. Gas is demand inelastic. So any tax increase will be passed almost 100% onto the consumer.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:03
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we're literally watching the planet die to satisfy the greed of oil/gas companies and people are shocked that they'd pass on costs to consumers
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Apr 18, 2024 23:09
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For some people this may force them to reconsider gas cars and switch to EVs or otherwise rejig their lifestyles so they don't have to drive anymore. Gas prices can't keep increases forever without people starting to look at alternatives eventually.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:10
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IDK, maybe they can just vote Conservative, instead.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:12
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Kraftwerk posted:For some people this may force them to reconsider gas cars and switch to EVs or otherwise rejig their lifestyles so they don't have to drive anymore. Gas prices can't keep increases forever without people starting to look at alternatives eventually. There's still a lot of room to go. See, for example: Europe.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:13
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Petition to rename Canada to Entitledbitchistan e: lol that was fast Another Bill fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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Apr 18, 2024 23:17
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PT6A posted:Also I think it's per individual based on everything I've heard, so a couple could realize a gain of $500,000 without hitting the threshold. And that's not pulling $500,000 out of an investment, that's making an actual $500k gain. It is such a large amount of money that frankly it's unreasonable to give a poo poo about any hardship it causes. Also, for the vast majority of non-mega-rich people all capital gains will be sheltered in an rrsp or tfsa.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:20
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Chillyrabbit posted:IMO it's also seen as just vote pandering and wasteful spending to "accelerate" affordable housing when the alarms were going off in 2015 after they were elected and also now that I googled their election promise. I think pandering is fine. I’d love for them to give me something I wanted in exchange for my vote. The problem is that I am, unfortunately, capable of object permanence, and can’t trust a thing the Liberals promise and the NDP has some half assed steps in a direction I like but they are addicted to losing.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:20
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Perhaps gas prices will eventually get so high that people will stop driving their giant stupid trucks and start driving something reasonable like my 300hp hot hatch, which, if their bitching is to be believed, incurs only 40% of the fuel cost over a commute of the same length despite using the super-premium gasoline (it ends up being $7.60 per round trip commute to the absolute arse end of nowhere, where the airport is, at the price I just paid today of $1.90/L).
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Apr 18, 2024 23:24
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Another Bill posted:Petition to rename Canada to Entitledbitchistan Talk about effective government
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Apr 18, 2024 23:31
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I am ever a servant of my constituents.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:44
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PT6A posted:300hp hot hatch Gotta say, that's about as stupid a vehicle as a lifted F-150 or whatever. Less murderous, but perhaps greater levels of compensatory machismo
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Apr 18, 2024 23:51
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:Gotta say, that's about as stupid a vehicle as a lifted F-150 or whatever. Less murderous, but perhaps greater levels of compensatory machismo Fair. I agree it's quite an absurd vehicle, that's sort of exactly the point I'm making. I bought a ridiculously excessive car simply because I wanted to, and it's fun, and yet it manages to be cheaper both to buy and run than the F-150s everyone claims they "need for work." Acceleration and cornering are the fun bits of driving, so I get to have all my fun while obeying the speed limit.
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Apr 19, 2024 00:18
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Gas prices have always been voodoo anyway My favorite was all the bitching about gas prices going up 4c/L for the federal tax, but you can bet your rear end nobody was complaining when the Alberta conservatives reimposed the 13c/L tax, wonder what's up with that?  And then at the end of the day the increase is tiny. Google tells me I drove 1000 km in March, which is itself higher than usual, and after doing the math a 20c/L increase comes out to like an extra $15/mo, and that's being pessimistic about my fuel mileage. Of all the things to be upset about, brother that ain't it.
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Apr 19, 2024 03:12
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PT6A posted:Perhaps gas prices will eventually get so high that people will stop driving their giant stupid trucks and start driving something reasonable like my 300hp hot hatch, which, if their bitching is to be believed, incurs only 40% of the fuel cost over a commute of the same length despite using the super-premium gasoline (it ends up being $7.60 per round trip commute to the absolute arse end of nowhere, where the airport is, at the price I just paid today of $1.90/L). I was hopeful on that front but it seems it's not to be. Consider that fuel prices are significantly higher in most of Europe than here and then... https://www.motor1.com/news/707655/suvs-more-popular-europe-all-others-combined/ I'm not sure what happened to people's brains since roughly the 1980s but everyone wants these godforsaken monstrosities (I'm including size-inflated trucks here) for some reason and I simply don't understand. The F-150 repeatedly being the bestseller surely must be some kind of harbinger of societal collapse.
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Apr 19, 2024 14:19
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I’ve basically driven cars like the Civic/Camry my entire life. Never cared for trucks and SUVs. Don’t need them.
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Apr 19, 2024 14:32
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Fidelitious posted:I'm not sure what happened to people's brains since roughly the 1980s but everyone wants these godforsaken monstrosities (I'm including size-inflated trucks here) for some reason and I simply don't understand. It's all marketing, and marketing works. The car manufacturers love it because the emission requirements are lower for large footprint vehicles (hence why every manufacturer is all in on either trucks or SUVs) and the profit margins are much higher, and they've launched hugely successful efforts to promote them at the expense of smaller vehicles in the lineup.
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Apr 19, 2024 14:40
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Baffling to me as I recognize we achieved perfection in vehicular design with the 2011 Hyundai Elantra, the thinking man's automobile.
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Apr 19, 2024 15:14
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The '98 Pontiac Sunfire is the car of those working hard to join the middle class. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FRpyGMFxUs
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Apr 19, 2024 15:25
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I had a 2006 Yaris hatchback, standard and it was awesome. I could fit so much poo poo in it and commuted to work every day for only 40$ of gas a week on top of other driving. But I hated commuting so I moved and changed jobs to the same neighborhood, sold my car and bike everywhere.
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Apr 19, 2024 16:59
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McGavin posted:The '98 Pontiac Sunfire is the car of those working hard to join the middle class. It is the year 2002; Newmarket, Ontario. There is at least 1 Sunfire for every freaking change of the traffic light.
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Apr 19, 2024 17:56
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The J Body was the calling sign of the 20 something in the 00s. I was a cultured man and had a Mazda 3, but I moved to the city and now I bike and train everywhere.
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Apr 19, 2024 19:09
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i love to see a sunfire still on the road, esp a convertable one. rarer than a lamborghini
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Apr 20, 2024 11:36
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmo...terms-1.7178300 Tired of this poo poo man
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Apr 20, 2024 14:57
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Screenshot because it doesn't embed for whatever reason
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Apr 20, 2024 14:58
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terrorist ambulance posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmo...terms-1.7178300 I'm glad you are OK. I could have sworn I saw a news story about you getting bombed.
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Apr 20, 2024 18:18
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Kraftwerk posted:I’ve basically driven cars like the Civic/Camry my entire life. Never cared for trucks and SUVs. Don’t need them. My old camry lasted 20 years before it got too expensive to be worth repairing. Sold it to a buddy who fixes up cars so he was able to do it for a lot cheaper and it's still going strong. Bleck posted:we're literally watching the planet die to satisfy the greed of oil/gas companies and people are shocked that they'd pass on costs to consumers Every time governments have had to step in and put a price on an externality that the "market" doesn't account for there's been a massive backlash. Until the fundamentals of our economic system radically change it's always going to be like this unfortunately. Dreylad fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Apr 20, 2024 |
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Apr 20, 2024 19:33
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Dreylad posted:My old camry lasted 20 years before it got too expensive to be worth repairing. Sold it to a buddy who fixes up cars so he was able to do it for a lot cheaper and it's still going strong. Yeah I’m a huge Toyota fan. I’m going to be incredibly cash poor for the next 2-5 years which sucks because I really want to replace my Jetta with the new Prius or just say gently caress it and get a Polestar 2 and kiss gasoline goodbye. Instead I have to pray my 5 year old VW with 140,000km doesn’t suddenly start failing in horribly expensive ways. Wish I got a Corolla when I had the chance but I wanted “fun for my money”. I think the problem with governments putting a price on externalities is that there’s no way to materially protect working class people. Higher energy costs have knock-on effects that make everything else horribly expensive and corporations are quick to pass the costs onto the customer with a 25-50% margin tacked on top so they make money off our misery no matter what. If I was the government I’d find ways to subsidize alternatives. Higher gas prices make EVs more attractive, yes. But there still isn’t enough charging infrastructure in place for EVs, urban design and public transport isn’t sufficient to provide an alternative car free lifestyle and EVs are too expensive to offset any of the cost savings you get from not buying gasoline. So effectively carbon taxes and other stuff just gently caress over the poor the same way a sales tax increase does. It just raises the cost of living for everyone except the rich and there’s not enough alternatives for people to simply choose another lifestyle or method. Kraftwerk fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Apr 20, 2024 |
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Apr 20, 2024 21:16
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Kraftwerk posted:I think the problem with governments putting a price on externalities is that there’s no way to materially protect working class people. Higher energy costs have knock-on effects that make everything else horribly expensive and corporations are quick to pass the costs onto the customer with a 25-50% margin tacked on top so they make money off our misery no matter what. I completely agree. Personally, I’m priced out of the EV segment, so I bought an economical gas car I could afford and take the train to work. Even if I had the money for an EV, I would probably buy a hybrid at best because my condo has outdoor parking with no charging. Investing in public transit based on corporate and income taxes would be a more equitable and effective means. Right now, the tax incentives and.spending the government has done on EV charging only benefits the rich since the cost of entry is prohibitive for most people.
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Apr 21, 2024 02:39
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There's so much demand and so little supply it's hard to even get a non-plug in hybrid. Subsidies definitely work: heat pumps have become a huge success and have become increasingly popular in Canada, even though they struggle at low temperatures.
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Apr 21, 2024 04:42
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Behold, the glory of Globe and Mail letters to the editor:quote:I was astounded to learn that, according to Chrystia Freeland, I am now considered one of Canada’s wealthiest 40,000 citizens. New idea: there should be a tax exemption when you do something so incredibly stupid and bizarre (like this lady) that it can’t possibly have been considered by policymakers. This poor person should be able to throw herself on the mercy of the court, confess being mentally subnormal, and receive a tax exemption and also a helmet for walking.
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Apr 21, 2024 13:00
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What a crock of poo poo, this being Canada they'd just evict the tenants, move in and stay the minimum for it to be a primary residence and then sell it for no cap gains. Or more realistically lie and say they lived there with the roommates and sell it in one year. Edit: I guess unless she's said she's lived there from the start she won't be fully exempt, there's way more details to calculate that - https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-ag...hanges-use.html Less Fat Luke fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Apr 21, 2024 |
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Apr 21, 2024 14:00
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"I can't afford to live in my condo" So why did you buy it? What obligated you to own an investment property that you clearly cannot afford?
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Apr 21, 2024 14:28
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Amongst all of the obvious possible replies to that whiny rear end in a top hat, I'd probably pick "nobody is forcing you to sell and if you did you'd still pay less tax on it than for employment income for no discernible reason".
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Apr 21, 2024 14:30
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Somehow real estate remains the one place where it's expected that making a bad investment is someone else's problem to solve for you.
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Apr 21, 2024 14:36
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