With a steady lead in the polls and a healthy war chest of political donations, the Conservative Party is rolling out a trio of new advertisements that are being viewed as aiming to redefine and soften Pierre Poilievre’s image and messaging.
With a steady lead in the polls and a healthy war chest of political donations, the Conservative Party is rolling out a trio of new advertisements that are being viewed as aiming to redefine and soften Pierre Poilievre’s image and messaging.
Is this true? I have disconnected myself from a lot of political media for the summer while working in the bush, and this caught me by surprise. What the fuck?
@Bo7a @sik0fewl
Yup. People are pissed at Trudeau and the Liberals so automatically turn to the Cons instead of, you know, the NDP or Greens … like we have a two-party system or something.
*eyeroll*
If people are pissed at Justin, it’s because Milhouse finally made his molehill into a mountain.
It seems to me people like PP because of their stance on inflation, which for most is the single biggest issue facing Canada today. Cons are proposing budget cuts, and the NDP are proposing a grocery store tax as solutions. People will probably be more favorable towards whichever solution they think will be the most effective.
But they think that budget cuts will be effective because they’re conservatives, so in the end it’s a circular argument.
If removing gas tax is any indication in Ontario, and gas prices stayed the same because the price was still what the market could bear, cutting taxes on grocery stores just means that the stores make more profit. The NDP idea of taxing profit “seems” more effective, but if anyone familiar with Hollywood accounting will say that profits will disappear before taxes are properly paid. They need to tax income.
They need to tax income based on standard profitability rates.
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Tax scales as a function of margin.
Though, applying the supply management system to grocery stores would probably work too, good suggestion!
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Yes, that would work.
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Income: money in (gross). Profit: money after expenses (net).
While humans have to pay income tax (because the government is afraid we’d have no money left to tax because we’d spend it all), business pays tax on profit. This means that they can totally “expense” more in a year and pay less tax. The only thing preventing that are stockholders, who often like profit as it gives them dividends and makes the stock more desirable and drives the price of the stock up. This assumes that there is a large number of stockholders and not a filthy rich Food Barron holding all the stock (a la Weston).
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No, I’m suggesting that we tax income rather than profit on large corporations run by a dynasty of incredibly wealthy individuals as they seem to be doing a bit too well under the current system.
This is so infuriating. But so true. Thanks! I think…
Aggregate polling has CPC at 37% +/-4% with the LPC at 29% +/-3%.
Thanks. I guess I will have to try to mobilize more people to get off their ass and go vote. So many of the people I know just don’t care enough to vote. But maybe the bitcoin and convoy-fellation facts about this pile of shit will help motivate more.
I have no hope that it will… But if I don’t try, I will hate myself.
Remind them that there are exactly 0 safe CPC members now for abortion rights due to recent voting (yes, private member bills are still showing up to try and remove rights, but this time Squinty is in charge and all his members are allowed to vote ‘with their conscience’ now).
I tend to use this to help motivate people. That’s over half of them, and two years ago.