The Canadian government hasn't been dependent on taxation since 10 April, 1933, when an Order-in-Council officially suspended the redemption of Dominion notes for gold. Once a government de-couples itself from reality via fiat currency, it can pay all domestic bills via money printing. Taxation is no longer about raising funds or balancing budgets, but about social engineering. Which peoples and behaviours should be penalized and which subsidized? Taxation is about helping friends and harming enemies.
That's the real danger. The justice system works because everyone agrees to set aside vigilantism and inter-clan feuding, which are the normal state of affairs, and allow an impartial justice system handle retribution. If the justice system stops upholding its side of the bargain, citizens will stop upholding theirs.
I make a low six-figure salary. I don't work particularly hard, especially during the last year of work-from-home nonsense. I could pursue some "side hustle" to make more money, I've got the time and energy. Why bother though? For every additional dollar I make almost half of it gets stolen. Why take risks and employ other people when the marginal utility to the risk-taker is beaten down so badly. I'll just micromanage my TFSA, extract as much money as I can from the market, and keep 100% of the winnings, thanks.
no one would have quibbled about getting an Ebola vaccine if it was running rampant during flu season
Only way Ebola runs rampant in a hospital is if no one is mopping up blood and vomit and everyone stops wearing gloves.
Remember when Doctor Tam advised people not to wear masks because she was worried about peasants buying up masks needed by valuable people and then when cut up T-shirt masks became a thing it was vitally important that everyone have one but the real N95 masks were still reserved for valuable people?
I think it's criminally irresponsible to encourage women to get into martial arts and start thinking they can beat up grown men like Black Widow. If the 110lb trained woman throws a punch at the 220lb random black guy, she's just getting herself into trouble.
I understand why the Indians or the French would have that sentiment, but we were never conquered by the British. We are the British. Like England, Scotland, and Wales, Canada is a part of the British empire. One people, one empire, one monarch.
You have the maximum amount of people trying their hardest to get as much as possible while giving as little as they can.
So long as our country remains a multi-national patchwork, we need to adopt this mentality or get exploited. I think there's a strong argument to be made that the married homemaker who produces four kids can be more economically valuable to her family and household by in-sourcing the childcare while making it her profession to exploit every government gibsmedat program than if she had got a job outside the household while out-sourcing childcare.
My grandparents retired in their early to mid 60's. They're currently 97. Since post-secondary education is becoming the norm, we are moving towards a society where a newly minted citizen is an economic drain on society until 18, produces nothing from 19 to 23 while going into debt, spends 24 to 34 paying off student loans, then then we have 34 to 65 in which he builds equity, raises kids, saves for retirement. 31 productive years during which the government takes 35% of everything you produce. Then he retires at 65 and spends the next 32 years existing. People are retired for longer than they were productively working. I understand that usury and speculation can fund this lifestyle, but that is ultimately a shell game. For a retiree to eat without producing, someone else must produce without eating.
We are going to reach a point where all these factors become obviously unsustainable and I suspect that birth rates will factor heavily in that conversation.
You missed the point. The current moderation policy is:
PPC Supporter == Racist == Banned.
The issue at hand was never racism; it was calling people racists as a pretext to ban vote splitters, and the "racists" aren't the bad guys here.