Reconciliation: where should the money come from?

[eyeball]

Maybe before the world became global, that was a good idea. Now a days it's a really good way to chase them out of Canada, and invest elsewhere.

Yes well we forgot to make a global government to match the global economy. Nowadays countries and borders merely serve as a shell game for wealthy powerful people to evade taxes.

[eyeball]

And it always will be since no major country is willing to hand its law making powers over to an unelected and unaccountable international judiciary and police force.

And yet many of these very same countries willingly surrender their economies to unaccountable international things like the IMF and World Bank.

[Second-class Canadian]

World Federation is a ways off for now, so we need to focus on what governments can do.

[Freddy]

Yes well we forgot to make a global government to match the global economy. Nowadays countries and borders merely serve as a shell game for wealthy powerful people to evade taxes.

Let the last great big war begin then. What are we waiting for? It's not going to happen with rainbows and kittens.

[eyeball]

What end?

The world has been at war pretty much since day 1 of the first Kingdom.

[Second-class Canadian]

So if we can't have world federation right now which limits our taxation abilities, then we must inevitably look at cuts for now.

[Freddy]

I was listening to a podcast interview of a historian...whose name I don't recall unfortunately, who made the stunning observation that the growing power that transnational corporations and financial institutions have gained, has given them the kind of power over national governments that the Catholic Church once held over Europe several centuries ago.

I'm just amazed so many people...who once opposed foreign takeovers of Canadian industries, now just write it off as some great inevitability...like the Sun rising and setting. Even the Cirque du Soleil is being sold off to some holding company owned by American and Chinese interests. Nothing in our economy is really Canadian owned anymore, and like you said they can move or just threaten to move their wealth elsewhere if they don't like our tax rates. They can move their industries as well, if workers demand decent wages.

The only thing "global" under the current regime is capital. After all of the paranoid rantings assorted rightwingers have done for the last 50 years about world government and internationalism, the world governing bodies with real power and authority are the ones that regulate trade and the flow of capital. And they are the primary reason why there is no international enforcement of international law or environmental regulations.

Only one way to get the ball rolling. Let's start with canada joining the United States. Edited July 4, 2015 by Freddy

[eyeball]

World Federation is a ways off for now, so we need to focus on what governments can do.

Wealthy people seem to be pretty much federated amongst their own kind...little more than upper crust commies AFAIC.

[Freddy]

What end?

The world has been at war pretty much since day 1 of the first Kingdom.

Nothing like the constant total wars we use to see in Europe.

[PIK]

More stories in the Vancouver sun about chiefs making to much money. Like the guy paid 211gs for being chief of a band with 39 members.

[eyeball]

Hah, the powerful getting more than they deserve or need...go figure.

[Argus]

More stories in the Vancouver sun about chiefs making to much money. Like the guy paid 211gs for being chief of a band with 39 members.

Don't worry, they'll disappear once Trudeau gets into power and does away with the Financial Transparency Act, as he's promised.