August1991

In civilised Canada, I cannot claim my municipal/provincial taxes as a deduction on my federal taxes In America, before Trump, this was possible. Rich people in California and New York reduced their federal tax. Trump changed the SALT and made America more like federal Canada.

In current macro theory, a State can sell bonds (print money) if it can raise taxes at the same rate. I'm with Harper. You Americans will solve this problem.

You are both old guys. Catholics. O'Reilly is centre Right. Biden centre Left. O'Reilly thinks that Putin is another Hitler who will invade Moldavia next - on his way to Paris. Biden thinks that America is the strongest/best country in the world. ===== I'm no fan of Trump. But this court trial in New York? I always thought that America was a better country.

In 1910, Europeans already knew so much. They wondered more. Some 100 years later, I travelled around the various parts of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire: Galicia, Lemnitz. ==== And then as in 1914, for no reason, like now I fear, it all fell apart.

1. Separate Québec from this place? It is impossible to take the rocks, trees, people. We can change the federal State, arrangement. 2. I disagree. We do get along.

On the contrary, I reckon that Nixon, Kennedy understood the problem. IME, you Americans are self-centred. You always view life as one of your problems.

Pierre Trudeau and Henry Kissinger were remarkable - they got it. For ordinary people to live well. the elite needs a structure of peace.

I reckon that the Central Bank should also be independent.

I recently read about Alexander Hamilton. ==== America's 1700s Enlightenment Constitution is based on only three counterweights: -Congress -Preident -Federal Court

One death is a Age 15? One death is a tragedy. Killing alot of terrorists, that's a statistic. == Black Dog, I disagree. In the 1914s and the 1940s, what did we Canadians do in Europe?

Why do I disagree? You answer my question. ===== In the summer of 1914, everyone in the elite thought that it would be a short war. To his credit, like Keynes, Churchill changed his mind.

Disagree. Churchill was born in the 1870s. Just like our millenials - some six decades after the last European war. ===== IMHIO, this is not 1938. It is 1912.

Kissinger was born in 1923. Trudeau in 1919. I never met Kissinger. Trudeau was short. By all accounts, both loved to flirt with women. Kissinger's mother tongue was German; Trudeau's English - and yet both worked best in another language. Trudeau was a Catholic, Kissinger a Jew. Trudeau avoided the war; Kissinger was an interpreter. ===== Both men viewed the world correctly.

Read carefully. I gave this link precisely to show how the elite in the 1910s - like now - think. ====== The Thirty Years between 1914-1945 were a disaster for Europe. In 1912, ordinary people had hope. By 1946, many were dead. Churchill in part caused this disaster. To his credit, Keynes changed his mind.

This is the popular American perception. Some American politicians want to be the next Churchill.

Disagree. Island people are practical. In smaller islands, the women in particular. ==== But I agree that island people are different. The Japanese are different from the Chinese, and the British from the French.

I don't support either guy But we Canadians have created a civilised place in the world: a federal state with two federal official languages but no official cultural. We get along.

Wow! IMHO, you Americans have a sustainable society for only some two hundred years China? For some 5000 years. Russia/Slavs? Some 1000 years - despite various invasions. A Mongol horde for 200 years, the Turks in Bulgaria for longer. Mongols? Turks? ==== And you Americans are going to dominate the world? .

Purely inflationary? Disagree. ==== Everyone in Quebec says that Trump is a bad guy. Check what he did with SALT.

1. The US federal spending obligations and tax revenues are unsustainable 2. A US federal government must impose a federal sales tax.

I am not talking about a wealth tax - many of us pay property taxes. (Why? This is a true wealth tax.) I think that people should pay tax on their income - (I would prefer people pay tax on their spending .)

I think that I now understand the secret of the Democrats and federal Liberals in urban areas. I was recently in Portland, Oregon. NIMBY.

Australians always seek protection. The British oppose any dominant European power. English-Canadians apparently tend to seek survival. French-Canadians are stubborn as hell. ===== This is a foolish war of nationalism. Young men are dying for nothing.

I'm serious about this. Why is the capital gain of a principal residence exempt from tax? Yet people struggling to change their life, get a job, lose their various benefits

Michael, You? Not at all. I'm fearful that certain Americans (Jake Sullivan for example) want to change the Russian state. In 1815 and 1945, we created a structure of peace. In 1991, there was an earthquake - we need a new system.