Aristides
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Would't hurt. I think Campbell would have made a pretty good PM but she inherited the Mulroney government baggage and put too much trust in the incompetents running the Conservative campaign.
Not Freeland though, she would just keep spending us into bankruptcy.
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1 minute ago, Yakuda said:
So again if I write on a piece of paper, "I saw a cow." then my writing was the cow. Got it.
If you write on a piece of paper. "God said this" doesn't make it the words of any god. Got it.
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Just now, herbie said:
Tax dollars for consumers to shovel more money to the banks? I'm sure they'd love that.
Tax dollars go to government, not banks. Banks actually pay taxes.
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1 hour ago, Yakuda said:
So a human puts a monkey in a zoo, therefore the human created the monkey.
Of course not. I'll ask again, who wrote "God's Right's"? What does god's hand writing look like. Let's see his signature on a piece of paper. Rights are continually being re defined by humans because humans created them.
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Just now, Yakuda said:
That's has nothing to do with our God given rights. What right? Sure there is. It's already been pointed out to you. The fact that humans violate the rights of others doesnt mean they are no inherent or God given rights. You're conflating two different ideas.
Who wrote "God's rights" if not humans?
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19 hours ago, Nationalist said:
You broke it...or the Yankees did.
Bush, Cheney broke it.
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1 hour ago, Yakuda said:
I don't care about "societies" I care about America. AGAIN the belief that man can change rights is precisely the problem.
And not one of them would want to have been a slave themselves. Humans have inherent rights and humans with power have infringed on those rights since humans first walked the earth. The fact humans have infringed on the inherent rights.if other human is not evidence that rights are "man made". That's not only wrong it's idiocy.
Humans only have the rights other humans allow them. Women just lost a right when the SCOTUS overturned Roe vs Wade. There is no such thing as an inherent right.
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46 minutes ago, Moonbox said:
If the priority is to actually make it easier for first time homebuyers to get homes, the policy needs to have a surgical focus on that. This does far more for the wealthy than it does for renters trying to break into the market, and wouldn't help them qualify.
It would be a devil's bargain - pay a little bit less now so you can pay orders of magnitude more later and leave nothing for your kids. You'd be crazy to take that deal.
It would help people to qualify because of the increase in take-home pay could be taken into consideration.
That would be a choice you would have to make. You can't leave anything to the kids if you were never able to buy a home in the first place.
QuoteThe $250,000 threshold means that 99% of people will never encounter it, outside of real-estate speculation. Real-estate speculation is something that's poisoned Canada's allocation of capital since the turn of the century, and discouraging that is good policy (IMO).
The collateral damage is the real problem. Small business owners (like doctors) who want to sell their business will now either eat shit when they sell their practices, or they'll have to set up complicated, clunky and expensive succession plans where they sell the practice off over years to stay under the threshold. Dumb.
Building homes is not real estate speculation, lack of supply has driven prices up, not speculation. Increasing taxes on capital gains does not encourage people to build homes.
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18 minutes ago, Yakuda said:
No they aren't. No normal person wants to be a slave least of all those who were in favor of enslaving others.
That's precisely the problem.
Yes they are, different societies have different interpretations of rights, we even have courts that interpret our own rights and occasionally change them. BTW, slavery is also a human invention. Almost half of the delegates who wrote the US constitution were slave owners including the first, third and fourth presidents.
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15 hours ago, herbie said:
You'd be deducting 99% of your mortgage payments at today's home prices and interest rates....
You would certainly be deducting a large part of it but you would also be able to pay of a mortgage quicker and it would make it easier for first time buyers to get into a home.
You could also make it optional. You could not deduct interest and sell with no capital gains tax or accept the deduction and pay tax when you sell.
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21 minutes ago, Yakuda said:
I'm down and fully prepared for every man for himself. Are you?
No, I’m just pointing out that the notion of rights is a human invention and have nothing to do with a god.
Rights vary and change according to how humans interpret them.
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1 hour ago, Yakuda said:
So you can't. Figured
I just did. Nature won’t give two figs for your imaginary rights. They are a human invention.
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1 hour ago, impartialobserver said:
it makes sense. They were fighting a losing battle. While I do support their right to exist as a nation, I am realistic to know that they had a monumental task ahead of them.
They do but there is no questioning their commitment.
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Telecoms are protected from foreign competition in Canada, as long as they enjoy that protection, there is nothing wrong with holding them accountable.
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Mortgage interest on a primary residence is tax deductible in the US but they pay capital gains unless they buy another principle residence of equal or greater value. Perhaps we should be doing that to help first time buyers.
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2 hours ago, WestCanMan said:
Tactical withdrawals have been a thing since long before the Sun Tzu. The shmozzle withdrawal employed by Biden and Obama is new.
So you think the withdrawal from Viet Nam in 1973 was well handled?
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6 hours ago, August1991 said:
Compulsory military service is a tax. To our credit, we in Canada have never had such a federal tax.
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So you don't believe in taxes either.
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On 3/3/2024 at 7:56 AM, Perspektiv said:
Might as well change Canada's name, to its original Iroquois spelling of Kanata while you're at it.
Leave it to the woke, and we will be stripped of everything this country stands for, which is conveniently offensive.
Did the Iroquois use our alphabet?
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4 minutes ago, August1991 said:
I disagree so strongly.
The Economist magazine is now talking about conscription in Western countries.
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This is not the 1930s.
This current situation reminds me of the events in 1912-1913 with various Balkan wars.
A clueless diplomatic elite is leading ordinary people into total disaster.
I actually think a term of compulsory service would be a good thing for young people. Doesn’t seem to have hurt the Scandinavians or Swiss. When a referendum was held in Switzerland to ban conscription 73% voted to keep it so they must see some good in it. Canadians seem to think their country owes them.
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26 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:
Dude, islamic state was nothing until Obama just instantly pulled out all of the US troops.
Obama's stupidity in Iraq gave rise to islamic state and Biden's stupidity in Afghanistan led to the withdrawal debacle there. It's not rocket science. Just like Biden's border catastrophe.
You guys are all so dumb that you are constantly trying the wrong things and failing. Then when a guy like Trump comes along and fixes it all you say that it's because of the Demmies who created the problem.
There's a reason why a "success story" for you leftards always goes like this: "Obama was dumb enough to cause islamic state spring up, and they grew to the size of a large country while he was president, but Trump only managed to get rid of islamic state because he kept doing what Obama was doing..." 😂
So US troops should have stayed in Iraq forever? They had already been there for ten years and it was Bush 2 who put them there.
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Even the New York Post is calling her Moscow Marjorie.
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Eventually we will come to the same point as the early nineties when creditors gave us an ultimatum and Chrétien/Martin had to slash spending. You can’t keep borrowing forever without your lenders eventually saying, enough.
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10 hours ago, Moonlight Graham said:
The new capital gains tax should only be aimed at people selling non-primary residences, besides cottages. All housing speculation should be disincentivized.
But that would only prevent the new buying of 2nd properties. There should also be some kind of mechanism to get current 2nd home owners to sell those homes instead of holding them. Just tax the crap out of the ownership of those homes until they sell so its no longer profitable.
If building homes as investments (rentals) is made unprofitable, why build them?
I’ve never heard of a tax on something that encouraged anyone to produce it.
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Leftist parrot says that rights come from government and only Christian nationalists believe rights come from God
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Every right you have came from legislation written by humans and can be changed by humans. God has nothing to do with it. Equal rights do not exist across humanity. Your truth is your own.