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2 hours ago, ExFlyer said:
Most of the manufacturers of products we buy every day do not pay taxes in Canada either.
Amazon is like every big (and smart small) company in Canada, pays as little taxes as they legally can.
The populace has always gone to where they can get the best price for their products and services.
Cdnfux can cry we are "blowing it off" but the fact is, if you can not compete and sell cheaper, you will go under.
LOL - awww are you still butthurt?
You're wrong of course. Only someone devoid of business experience would think "competing" means offering the lowest price. No wonder you were a failure at air force procurement.
There are a lot of ways that smaller businesses can better satisfy a customer's needs than a larger one and more ways than price point. Talent for example. If it were all about price supercuts would be the only hair styling place out there but because people tend to find a stylist they like and are willing to pay for it the 'cookie cutter' approach doesn't work.
Lots of industries require trust, and that's not something that you can just 'sell for less money'. People will pay a premium for flexibility in many cases.
Smaller businesses tend to be more flexible and have less overhead as well. I've seen a few plumber start ups for example, guy goes on his own with a few clients working out of his basement with maybe 2 or 3 employees - that guy will have an advantage over the bigger name companies.
There's a reaosn smaller businesses makes up the vast lion's share of our economy. The most jobs and most money by far it's not even close.
But - They are more vulnerable to inflationary issues.. That plumber i mentioned and others like him are going to seriously be hurt by the increase we're about to have on gas prices for example. And they buy stuff for big jobs on credit - they buy their vehicle on credit, etc so when rates go up it really clobbers them more than the big guys.
Small businesses are also less easily adapted as a rule - if changes require new gear or reworking of the business they may not have the funds or the knowledge to make that happen right away.
So yeah - you're blowing it off. It shows an ingorance of business to simply say 'if you can't sell cheap you can't compete"
The problem is - The job of the federal gov't isn't to create jobs but it IS to create a fertile environment where business can grow. They have done the opposite. remember when trudeau called small business owners "tax cheats"? He's passed a number of laws which hurt them disproportionally, and his current policies make it worse.
This is a real problem for Canada right now. And instead of leading to more competative and stronger business which most tough times tend to it's going to lead to a general weakening of our economy and a slower recovery.
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43 minutes ago, TreeBeard said:
You are unsure of its meaning?
Did you look up the definition in the act?
Here, I saved you 30 seconds:
"disease, injury or illness" includes the following:
(a) physical or mental injury or illness;
(b) problematic product use;
(c) addiction;
(d) general deterioration of health;
(e) the risk of disease, injury or illness;
Problematic?
And you feel that this is a clear definition do you?
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31 minutes ago, eyeball said:
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I've obviously emotionally damaged you again. Sorry about that. You're just so fragile.
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5 minutes ago, herbie said:
Having more people to sell to and buy from is bad for the economy. It's downright communist......
Are you that stupid? Or are you faking to try to make a point that's that stupid? IT's often hard to tell.
Having more people than you can house and feed and employ and train and care for is bad for the economy. Did you really need that explained?
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12 minutes ago, herbie said:
Can't build a kleptocracy without using crooks....
- THIS COMMENT WAS APPROVED BY HUNTER BIDEN.
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7 minutes ago, herbie said:
Try living somewhere that the MoneyMart went tits up!
Loan sharks go broke...Is there such a place? During these times i expect they're all booming
Quoteat one point two hookers were out by the gaas pumps underbidding each other.....
The jokes write themselves
you really should be more careful about what you say
Quotewaited out competition with a fancier shop and accredited employees cuz their overhead was a killer and I was training local kids with grant money and much lower rent. Bought all their entire stock for $900 as he would've lost money to pack and haul it away.
Was this before or after you tripled your home value with your credit card? (LOL - thought i'd forgot didn't you)
Quotebugged my cousin to move her cappuccino shop up here, they'd just built a new University and no one else sold that there. She could've charges a dollar more than on Hastings St. and customers would be grateful to get it. But of course UNBC was too far, too cold, not a place for convertibles, couldn't go see Mick Jagger perform in Depends for $200 or haunt the malls in Bellingham...
I feel like you wandered off topic there towards the end...
QuoteI'll tell you again that you live in the best country on Earth with limitless opportunities. You just have to adapt
You b*tch about this country incessantly.
And we don't live in the best country on earth these days by far. You can get by. You can survive. but most other major countries have better qualitiy of life than we do. ANd it's getting worse - i'll be fine and likely you will too (as long as you have your magic credit card) but the kids today are going to live a lower quality of life and it's hard to get around that.
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5 minutes ago, eyeball said:
Another right-wingers long-winded politicization of the left.
It was two sentences
it only seemed long because of your tiny left wing attention span
QuoteA topic that pretty much takes up about 90% of the internet's bandwidth.
I'm sure you consider 2 sentences to be 90 percent of the internet's bandwidth, but no
but you're making an EXCELLENT example of @I am Groot 's initial position that the left cares more about using fake language rather than deal with the facts
QuoteThat's a lot of judging. Ya'll need to get out more often.
Awww - did i say something wrong? Maybe you should pass a law
Seems like having your own authortarian ways rubbed in your face has ticked you off a bit.
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4 minutes ago, robosmith said:
^Can't even address the Russian collusion
Knowing people isn't the same as "colluding". Sorry. And neither trump nor his campaign was ever accused of collusion, nor did any of the investigators every claim there was enough evidence to even try a charge.
Fail.
All you're doing is driving people into trump's corner even harder.These cheezy innuendos and 8 years of 'collusion' that always turned out to be bullcrap has just motivated people to vote for trump more.
Here's how the average voter is going to see things:
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It's a complete disaster. The number isn't important, it's the rate of increase. It's devastating our economy, our medical system, our educational and training systems, it's creating a false economy for our schools which will mean huge increase for kids when the cards collapse, and there's not enough resources to help integrate them. They then feel disconnected, bond with other similar people to complain that they can't figure canada out and it's not like the old country and the kids get mad and feel segregated and isolated and that always ends badly.
Our population is growing far far far too quickly for us to handle.
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38 minutes ago, robosmith said:
Trump Wants to Bring Felon He Pardoned Onto His Campaign
Russia, Russia, Russia... there he goes AGAIN.
So you believe that nobody deserves a second chance?
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22 hours ago, eyeball said:
Why on Earth would anyone want to do that to someone?
Well judging by the lefts behaviors these days it's to make sure they say the right words. Which brings us back to the topic,
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On 3/17/2024 at 10:26 AM, Legato said:Quote
2. I don't speak goose.
Really?
He COULD be from quebec originally - try Le langue de l'oie or Quebecsquak as it's often referred to -
58 minutes ago, ExFlyer said:
History according cdnfux LOL
Always easy to see when you know you've screwed up and are embarrassed
QuoteHarper and Scheer and Erin whatshisname were all losers and could not compete LOL
Sure - harper ran the country getting stronger and stronger mandates for 10 years beating out 3 out of 4 contenders but he 'coudln't compete'
OH dear. Are we getting a little angry that your buddy justin is doing so badly?
QuotePP will win because Trudeau is hated now.... period
PP would win anyway. PP will win possibly one of the strongest majorities in history because Justin is hated.
And then PP will likely win again. Giving us 8 - 10 years of cpc rule
And it would not surprise me if he won a third time.
A generation of kids has just learned "vote woke get broke." I"m sure the next liberal leader will try to bring you guys to the right a bit - but i think it's going to be a long time before people forget justin or the ndp coalition.
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56 minutes ago, ExFlyer said:
Yup, jobs are being lost.. it is what is is.
Blowing nothing off.
Increased bankruptcies because no one is patronizing those places. Period.
Cannot pay your bills because no one uses your business, is they way it is.
I suspect many are insolvent because they know the upcoming government loans are coming due so they bail out now.
Can't compete, out you go.
Sure - and every now and again there's a 'purge' where the weak businesses lose out and that's healthy for our companies from time to time.
But we need to look at it as part of the larger picture. With our situation the way it is, that's a very bad sign for the economy. We are losing jobs and businesses at a time when we're importing people at a record pace and our debt servicing is through the roof and we're already taxed to the max.
You are kind of blowing this off - that is the recipe for long term economic weakness, much like the stagflation we saw in the 80's. That's not just "oh well a few businesses went under'.
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46 minutes ago, West said:
I see some of your point. I have pondered many of the same things. Political discussion by its nature is combative. The heated rhetoric isn't helping anyone at this point though
well i remember the debates and discussions within the CPC back when it first formed over the whole 'gay marriage' issue and such and yeah things would get heated sometimes but there was a real sense of 'how do we address everyone's concerns'. And even with other political debates back in the day especially where there's no clean answer that everyone can be happy with (or at least equally mad about) there's a sense of trying to understand where the other person is coming from and to be reasonable. And we just don't see that much anymore.
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9 minutes ago, Caswell Thomas said:
No...these were quoted by YOUR news programs, not ours. You need to keep up really.
LOL - "MY" news programs huh?
And what news programs do I have exactly?
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10 minutes ago, Caswell Thomas said:
and the ghost dance of the ultra far fringe fanatical right.
Sure - that made sense and was coherent. 🙄
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3 minutes ago, Caswell Thomas said:
Well, seems like your dam is showing a few cracks and the foundation is trembling.
Why, because you were wrong? I don't think you understand how this (or dams) work
QuoteTrumps claim if being a billionaire is now revealed as the fantasy smoke and mirrors game , the Chubb Group is over 250 companies and if they together consider him so unreliable as to not even have a half billion to.post his own bond then undoubtedly he never had it.
Well lets look at a few of the ways that's stupid.
First - the fact that someone does not have something now does not speak in the slightest to whether or not they had it before. That's dumb. there's lots of things i don't have now that i used to have. So right off the bat you're showing your grade 4 level of logic comprehension again.
Secondly, it may just be an issue of liquidity. You probably don't know this but a billionaire doesn't have all their money in cash. I imagine your understanding of finance comes from reading scrooge mcduck - but nobody actually has a money bin.
So he may have assets worth that kind of value but that he cannot liquidate to buy a bond. He could have 100 billion in real estate but because he can't sell it before the deadline it's not useable. He'd still be a billionaire tho.
And third off... the prosecutor has literally said he has half a billion in assets in new york alone she'll sell off to pay his bills. SO - he can't use those assets to secure a bond - which means he has At LEAST a half billion just in new york. So if he's got even another half billion in assets around the world even if he can't liquidate them right now he's over a billion before the lawsuit.
None of that was hard. why don't you start thinking a bit before posting?
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Just now, West said:
Their beefs are legitimate, such as rampant abuse that still cycles on. I'm not convinced the answer is more money as we have never spent more on social programs throughout our history than we have at this point.
The solution is likely on a micro level now with folks learning to live in a place of common understanding.
Everyone everywhere has a legitimate beef about something. There are jobs posted right now in canada that i can't apply for because of the colour of my skin. I hear about how white cis males are the source of all evil in the universe and we should be taking everything they own because they don't deserve it all the time. Neurodivergent people face a society that it's a severe struggle to live in and there's next to no sympathy. etc etc.
There comes a point where you have to look at it and set it aside and do what you can when you can and accept some people are bigoted asses.
So the problem is that some of these people want to say their beefs are the ONLY legitimate ones. Women have no rights, just them. etc etc. Who cares about your problems, i demand you address the issue of where i'm going to pee right now.
And until that changes, i just don't see how this can be anything but confrontational.
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7 hours ago, ExFlyer said:
How could his approval rating be anything but high when he only has Trudeau to come up against? LOL
He has become popular because he has no opponent LOL
History has shown time and again that's not how it works. If that were the case scheer and erin would have won their races.
Its a common fallacy that people 'vote against' a party they don't like or that we 'vote out not vote in' gov'ts - but much research has shown that's not true. People have to have something they believe in to move towards or they'll stick with the devil they know.
PP is winning hearts and minds on his own merits. You may not like him and fair enough, but the fact is that more and more people do and that's not because of justin.
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3 minutes ago, West said:
In my opinion, you can only take on the weight of everyone's problems for so long before it takes a toll on you.
We need to get back to civilized discourse on all sides. Trans aren't the enemy. First Nations aren't the enemy. White Christians aren't the enemy. All are people with worth as human beings.
There are some real world issues that require real solutions and understanding.
Just my two cents.
That would be nice - but lets face it - as far as the trans and first nations are concerned we're the enemy. And an industry has grown up around that and now it's being exploited - that won't be put down easily.
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The more concerning thing for me is that it now seems like any group that feels they didn't get what they want can turn to violence and it's just acceptable.
That's how much we've enabled this kind of thing. What happens when someone decides that the 'queers' have had too much and that it's ok to starts attacking back?
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Just now, ExFlyer said:
How many of those going bankrupt are cannabis shops? In my area there were dozens and now it is down to only a few.
How many are restaurants? With the hike in prices and the tips suggestions being up to 20%, going out for dinner is less and less for most people.
How many of those are Mom and Pop shops that cannot compete with bigger stores?
Doesn't matter. They're jobs that are vanishing.
QuoteWhile the headline is dramatic, the bottom line is there are hundreds and hundreds of bankruptcies and insolvencies every year. This year will be even more considering many businesses will have to pay back all the government loans (unless justin gives them all clemency to get votes)
Nice attempt to blow it off - but that's just silly. The numbers are increasing, and reaching fairly historical highs, and saying "oh well there's always some" is trite and pedantic.
If this trend continues it'll have a massive impact on our economy and "well i didn't like that buisness anyway" doesn't make it any better.
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40 minutes ago, Perspektiv said:
Technically, a significant amount of immigrants, contribute to those small businesses.
My wife is from the Philippines, and is an entrepreneur through and through.
It's quite true that immigrants often START businesses and that the failure of these small businesses is a problem,
But - i was more alluding to the fact that the smaller businesses is often a source of income for the new immigrant. They're more likely to give someone without an extensive track record a chance, they're often the ones with the more entry level jobs that immigrants can use to build a work history, they're often immigrants themselves (as you note) and more sympathetic or perhaps culturally similar so they can relate more.
So when those small businesses die - and yet immigration continues - we run into a problem. Lots of newer people who are going to have a tougher time getting started in the workplace in Canada.
Combined with inflation this often leads to frustration and anger and that's not what you want your immigrant population to be feeling.
What's The Point Of Having Yet ANOTHER "Left Vs. Right Vs. Right Vs. Left" Sounding Board, Anyway...?
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Sure - but i just skip over those too as a rule. I mean = it's not hard when you see "trump agrees to have sex with russian toddler in a blood bath" that it's probably worth skipping that one till it hits about three pages and then just jump in to see how the fight's going
My theory is that everyone has SOMETHING worth listening to once in a while. Even if it's a very long while.