herbie

"I can see conservatives supporting via basic income those who legitimately are unable to work, but i can't see them supporting those who can work but don't want to." A totally distorted view of the social system. UBI is not at all about giving out free money, it's a method to distribute due benefits more efficiently. If you understand why and how there are 'clawbacks' on pension payments for example, you should comprehend how UBI works. If you actually think you can exist comfortably on welfare you're simply not bright or motivated enough to be hired by anyone. You 'qualify' by default. But you still pay rent to a landlord, buy clothes goods and groceries to exist and contribute back i and aren't the "drain on the economy" some holier-than-thou types seem to think. Nothing changes other than you get one cheque instead of umpteen from umpteen agencies with their own bureaucracy. It would also hinder the political vote buying with carbon tax, GST, grocery, hydro and pandemic rebates.

Paying a carbon tax didn't make climate change go away. Repeating it over and over with as many voices as possible doesn't make that an intelligent rebuttal. It does show others the Dunning-Kruger effect is very real.

Why aren't they rioting and throwing horse shit at the politicians over the Transit Tax, it's even higher that the total Carbon Tax is even now.

I.O.W. for exactly the same reasons it's a horrible idea for any one else to endorse it. It's nanny state communism if mentioned by the left, fiscally responsible by Tories. I mean that's what The Loyal Opposition means, you oppose it even if you agree with it just to be obstinate.

You know the difference between ballots and census forms? You don't have to fill in every part of the ballot. That's why Single TranSferable ballots failed here. I have to pick 3 and rank them? Duh, that's too hard.....

The teens worked at the finger joint mill for $20 hr, the food joints were TFWs and hire the toodumb to tie their own shoes teens - if there was a hire the handicapped govt incentive. Solly no bless wif KFC spesha oh knee duck mit. You buy bucket get bless mit.

I've never even sold used cars!

OMG! The horror! It cost them an extra penny so they raised it a dollar, it's the employee's fault. It's in the Bill of Rights for companies to rip you off for as much as they can. The Pursuit of HappyMeals clause.

Tell me how a 55" flatscreen for 1/2 the price as my 26" CRT was in 15c valued for inflation dollars was a flop. Like the millions of minivans sold in US markets. All the jobs in ports and transport. You're whining about 3.5¢ gas tax and suggesting we go back to paying $1499 for $399 outboard motors like before the Trade Agreements. $3 for Mr Noodles too?

surrender. certainly beginning to look that way.

Maybe you should join the real world someday. The Band run school provides breakfast & lunch for kids that need it plus apples and fruit for snacks. The public school does not. Both serve the same population. Pretty hypocritical thing for someone in favour of ending birth choices and full parental takeover by Children & Families as an alternative to say.

Which in real English means the less tax you pay, the lower your income is so you need the refund more than a wealthy person. The year after the wife died, I had to pay on her pension payout so I was disqualified from all rebates. Because I was wealthier that year. So be it. Come up with a newspeak name to make that fact seem like a despicable unfair thing.

It's got to the point people are wondering if they have to. Israel's dragged this invasion of a miniscule place on for so damn long it looks like the siege of Stalingrad. Endless destruction and civilian casualties topped with a sprinkling of utter military incompetence.

Look. most people are so dumb they think the other country pays the tariff. They have no idea that YOU pay the tariff out of your own pocket. Tariffs are an excuse to remain uncompetitive, reduce consumer choice, & international trade and invite retaliation by countries you do trade with.

Let's dig up more gibberish terms to explain why feeding children is bad. MKAY? It's just bad, no thinking needed.

Obviously, prices in Vancouver are expected to rise to $2.30+ over the next few months. Scream at the 3.5¢ because govt is inherently evil. Only the Emperors and Invisible Man in the Sky are qualified to make decisions.

What has wealth redistribution got to do with Marxism in 2024? Robin Hood was a Satanic Marxist?

He DID drain the swamp. Until only the scum was left. Scum that would hawk nationalist Bibles during Easter Week... no limit to how crass one can get.

You say that as if there's something "wrong" about wealth redistribution. Suck up those buzzwords fast as you can.

And 2 days later, prices go up again. Where's the screaming and yelling?

The usual diatribe from deniers and delayers claiming everyone else are the stupid ones. Proof you can educate some, but there's no cure for stupid.

Just heard the Polliwog on CKNW duck, dodge, lie and repeat his mealy mouth idea of what he thinks is a climate plan. Oh he's all for LNG exports they'll help India reduce THEIR emissions. Well and good if one is clueless that BC isn't doing that right now. Worse lying that Trudeau is trying to stop us. He likes small nuclear reactors and hydro, the 2 most expensive and longest to roll out. Could help a couple decades after anyone plans to actually start. He'll Axr the Tax and give incentives to Green Companies, throw away a revenue source and hand money they no longer have to companies. All for sweeping it under the rug and pretending 'Carbon Capture' somehow reduces emissions. I loved how he suggested "tidal wave" alternatives, demonstrating how little he knows about alternative energy methods. Further proof the Tory plan is no plan at all, the intent is to delay, deny and shovel more of our tax dollars into business incentives, handouts and writeoffs. Helping YOU even less than the environment.

Isee some people have trouble recognizing facetious and sarcastic posts when they go up. Others must think the crowds of Israelis protesting in the streets are antisemites too,. or they're of the opinion that people of country A don't have the right to protests the actions of country B. I say they do, but I'm able to see the futility and stupidity of storming your town's School Board meeting demanding an end to hostilities between 2 groups on the other side of the world....

No, no Eyeball they're the chosen people. Dropping bombs on aid convoys is righteous and holy, you must be an antisemite if you question the actions of Israel's govt. Only the questioning of Russia and China is acceptable.

You really have a sick conception of what govt is. A viewpoint from 150 years ago.