77% of Swiss voters just rejected a proposal to introduce a $3000 guaranteed basic income for all. Supporters wanted it because it would allow them to focus on their passions and not go to work.
Meanwhile those who don’t like to work have just taken a hit from Environment Canada. Apparently if the Oil Sands were entirely shut down, carbon emissions would be cut by an infinitesimal 12/100th’s of 1 percent! Seems a good time for a cost/benefit analysis.
If you think facts are important when dealing with the globull warming alarmists you haven’t been paying attention. This is not about facts and it’s not about the environment. It’s about socialism and nothing will stop them. Which is why it’s time to wake the hell up.
“Meanwhile those who don’t like to work have just taken a hit from Environment Canada. Apparently if the Oil Sands were entirely shut down, carbon emissions would be cut by an infinitesimal 12/100th’s of 1 percent! Seems a good time for a cost/benefit analysis.”
But, Harper is evil and is muzzling the scientists! oh, he’s not PM? hmm…
James, a big bingo for you!
Well, I realize that you’re being facetious on Harper, but what did his government DO to refute the BS of “climate change” over 10 years? SFA! Had to maintain that “incrementalism” program to unsuck the thumb suckers in this country, when drastic action was needed.
And the current crop of “progressive” revertibles aren’t even motivated to protect their own voters on the issue, either. They apparently have succumbed to the Borg. Liberals, one & all. See: Ezra Levant – http://www.therebel.media/ezra_levant_june_3 On top of that, they did not use any of the work of Vivian Krause detailing US Foundation money interfering & influencing Canadian industry & politics over the last 20 years, not once did they use the services of Canadian scientists like Tim Ball, or Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit, you know the one who debunked Mann’s “hockey Stick” BS.
I won’t go into their importation of some 250,000 muslimes, over the same time period, when more compatible immigrants could have been readily imported instead. Escapees, if you will from failed EU immigration policies.
When I first heard the headline of the Swiss considering this ‘guaranteed income’ (glorified welfare), I thought they had lost their collective minds.
77% rejection restores my faith in the Swiss, that they are not the socialists that the rest of Europe has become.
Yes, it’s another way that the CPC squandered the majority mandate we gave them.
Vancouver’s mayor wants to kill Kinder-Morgan because his city’s green:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2L6jsPZ4Z8
I fully agree. Harper did nothing openly to refute the AGW fraud other than not sending delegates to the 2009 Copenhagen fraud fest and not publicly endorsing the theft of people’s money for the socialist fraud.
Yes, it sounds crazy and the timing may not be quite right, but as computers increasingly take over jobs, the work week will shrink and many jobs will disappear. There needs to be an adjustment to the monetary system to accommodate this. The alternative is to have massive numbers of people on wefare. I think this is definitely coming.
Harper doing nothing was heard loud and clear not sending delegates is the first step. And not having a Federal Cap and Trade Tax was another way. We the people have spoken NO TAX. What do you think the media would have done to Harper if had of stood at a mic tell people that their is no AGW or CC. The media has no conscious and would have made fun of him and cartoons to no end. So when he said nothing more or less I took that as there is no climate change or global warming.
I am a big fan of Michael Campbell,have been for over 20 years,as he speaks English when talking about finances and other issues instead of duckspeak.
BUT,I wish he would explain what in hell a “revenue neutral” carbon tax is.If he means the money is taxed then the SAME amount is given back to the citizens, then it’s revenue neutral, but why bother inflicting it in the first place? Is RNCT just another tax /welfare scheme taken from the rich and middle class to give to the poor and welfare class? Wealth redistribution by another name?
But,I don’t believe the amount given back is anywhere near as much as what is taken in,therefore NOT revenue neutral.
Does the Auditor-General calculate this and include it in his report, or are we just supposed to believe the liars we elected to government?
And I, like so many here,waited breathlessly for Stephen Harper to act on the climate change fantasy, but it never happened. I guess it’s too good a scam and too beneficial to the government to blow the whistle.
Don Morris beat me to it. Michael Campbell sounds like a smart guy; too bad he doesn’t understand that there is never a “revenue neutral” tax. Somebody, somewhere, is paying the administration costs at the very least and I don’t know of any government that wouldn’t be skimming something off for other schemes.
“Yes, it sounds crazy and the timing may not be quite right, but as computers increasingly take over jobs, the work week will shrink and many jobs will disappear.”
I don’t think anyone quite realizes, let alone accepts, what is coming. From blue collar jobs to white collar jobs, we are going to have a massive percentage of our current workforce become unemployed as robots and computers take over jobs. Forget shrinking work weeks – there won’t be much of any work at all.
All these fights over Uber and minimum wage are silly cause none of it is going to matter when 50% of jobs disappear over the next 30 years.
The CPC as a true Conservative government is all but done until they take on the PC-addled MSM in an all out war.
When the media is not an actively dedicated enemy of conservatism, then we will have a fair chance to market the values of personal responsibility + small government.
Traitors.
There are things that will stop them. Killing them is one. Letting them have their way also works, eventually. E.g. Venezuela. Reality will teach the lesson over and over, whether they learn it or not.
Has it hurt Trump? They have a voice, open their damned mouths. Not doing so gives legitimacy to the purveyors of this fraud. Just the media reporting on it, in any way, gives them legitimacy to sow doubt in the electorate. An opposing view. Articulate it, don’t remain silent. We’re dealing with LIV’s here. Put the boots to the media in their scrums, make them do their homework. Mock them publicly. They might even interview someone like McIntyre to get their stories straight. NEVER let the media, or your enemies define you.
Both Don and Aviator are right. There is no such thing as a revenue neutral tax. This is put out by lying politicians to lull and snow-job the gullible LIVs.
Total bs. Somebody has fix your car and toilet. Somebody has to pave your road and deal
With your sewage . Entrepreneurs will find new innovations . Destructive religions have
to be dealt with. Criminals always look for new ways to scam you. Dictators never go
away. A new generation of suckers is born everyday. Lots of work to been done after the
global warming scam has been dealt with
Fixing cars? Paving roads? Will those things be done any more? After all, we have millennials who don’t know how to use basic hand tools and who think that every problem can be fixed by using the appropriate smartphone app.
Sorry, kiddies, pliers and wrenches required *manual* labour in order to be useful, not software. Don’t know how to use them? There’s probably a Youtube video that’ll show you.
Yes good plan let them win that’ll show them.
Mayor Effin Moonbeam
As I commented in a different forum, maybe Vancouver developers should ignore building permits, because THEY have a ‘moral authority’ to build more housing for people.
Beware of greentard politicians who start declaring they are acting with moral authority, it’s right out of the fascist authoritarian handbook
Ignore building permits? That seemed to be a pastime when I was a grad student at UBC in the late 1970s. A lot of people were only too glad to rent out their basements at usurous rates because of the chronic housing shortage there at the time. (Jack Volrich was mayor then.)
A lot of those basements were renovated and were done so cheaply and poorly that they would never have passed proper inspection. Since many of those homeowners wanted the extra money (which wasn’t always declared on their income tax returns, by the way), they weren’t too fussy about such details. Students, on the other hand, were only too glad to have a place to stay.
Finding decent accommodations at a reasonable price was difficult at best. Often what was offered would have embarrassed many a slumlord.
I often wondered what the utility companies thought about hooking up those often illicit suites. Then again, there is such a thing as leaving slumbering canines in peace. A lot of time was spent looking the other way, if you get my meaning.
The Economist recently had a big spread on the future of the Welfare state and discussion of a guaranteed income was a part of it. Invented in Bismarck’s era, the Welfare state is showing signs of stress and it may be time to rethink things. It’s important to remember that there are a ton of inefficiencies in the current system with programs overlapping each other. The other half of the equation in the GI model is a slashing of the bureaucracy i.e., cost savings. Capitalism has been tremendous at providing opportunities and job growth as industries change. With the impending tech wave things might not repeat themselves.
I’m glad that somebody else said this, so I don’t have to. This isn’t about Work Ethic, it’s about administrative efficiency.
The various eco-wackos want us to reject the sattlite data and only ecsept their new age mumbo gumbo poppycock about climate Change