As of this September, federal, state and local governments in this country employed a record total of 23,421,000 individuals, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In other words, government payrolls were populated by more people than lived in the state of Florida or in any of 47 other states. Only California and Texas had populations that exceeded the number of people who work for government in this country.
Collective Farming
Why are the Tories split on this issue? Do some of them actually think that the supply mismanaged dairy and poultry sectors should be allowed to hold the rest of the economy hostage?
This week, farming groups and former trade negotiators took turns trying to convince the upper chamber to either support or reject the Bloc’s private member’s bill to protect supply management from future trade negotiations.
The government voted in favour of the legislation last year, as did most Liberal MPs, the Bloc, the NDP and the Greens. The Conservatives were split on the vote.
Punishment Will Increase
Until morale improves.
Blacklock’s- Feds Want 3% Irish Land Tax
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday said cabinet would like to adopt an Irish-style three percent annual federal tax on vacant lots.
“Such taxes would be intended to discourage speculative holding of land and making it more costly to keep land undeveloped,” the finance department wrote in a Consultation Paper. “Taxes could provide a source of revenue for various orders of government which could be used to fund the construction of more new homes,” it added.
Wise Words
One of the less well-known economists of the Austrian School was Professor Antal Fekete who died in 2020. Fekete arguably had a much better grasp of monetary issues than many of his contemporaries. His works are still available on his website, and one in particular details why debt must necessarily grow exponentially in a fiat currency system.
Every year monetary authorities must create at least as much new money as needed to service outstanding debt, in order to keep the game of musical chairs going.
Governments have lost not only their option to reduce indebtedness but, more ominously, the option to balance their budgets. There is a new item in the budget that is never named, that is well-hidden, but that is increasing by leaps and bounds year after year: that part of government borrowing that is needed to provide cover for the increase of the monetary base.
The utterances of politicians about their resolve to eliminate the budget deficit is disingenuous – it cannot be done under the prevailing monetary regime on a net basis.
If It Wasn’t For Government
Who would keep firetrucks away from fires?
Great Success!
Blacklock’s- Few Hear Of Pharmacare Act
Few Canadians know of cabinet’s pharmacare bill though cabinet has promoted it as groundbreaking, says in-house Privy Council Office polling.
“None were aware of any action from the federal government related to establishment of a national pharmacare program,” said the Privy Council report. Findings were drawn from focus groups nationwide. The Privy Council commissioned the questionnaires under an $814,741 contract with The Strategic Counsel, a Toronto pollster.
Today In Renaming All The Things
Daily Sceptic- The Politicisation of Plants
The first step concerns the word caffra. It is a common suffix in some plants, such as Erythrina caffra. From now on caffra will be replaced by affra, so that Erythrina caffra will be known as Erythrina affra. This is because caffra is a bad word, alluding to an Arabic word for ‘infidel’ (which at some point was adopted as a racial term in South Africa), while affra is a good word, alluding to Africa. If that was the first step, then the second step is that the nomenclature session also decided that a committee will be created to consider the names of plants associated with controversial figures from the past: though this will only apply to plants named after 2026, and therefore not reach as far as renaming plants which were originally named for slave traders or despots.
A Tax, Is A Tax, Is A Tax
Globe and Mail- A look at Halifax’s climate property tax, ahead of a civic election that could determine its future
This is unique among larger Canadian cities – many of which have put little money toward climate change even as they declare it an emergency – and raises about $18-million in dedicated funds each year. But its prominence on the bill is a recurring worry to the city bureaucrat who helps dole out the money.
“Usually when things are called out on the tax bill, they’re at risk,” said Shannon Miedama, Halifax’s director of environment and climate change. “Every year I freak out that it’s going to get debated and pulled, and it hasn’t happened yet.”
“Welcome to Sex”
Gateway Pundit- Controversial Support for Children’s Sex Education by Trudeau: How Far Can Indoctrination Go?
The book is aimed at children aged 8 to 10 and addresses highly explicit topics such as masturbation, oral sex, genital size, and various gender identities.
Your Home Is Not Your Castle
When a society accepts the premise that those with wealth deserve to have it strip mined, nothing is off limits.
Governments’ extraction of value from our homes has accelerated in recent years as they have became more desperate, both to raise revenue and to find scapegoats to deflect blame for their own starring role Canada’s housing shortage. As the byzantine extractions multiplied, our homes, once considered our main assets, have morphed for many into our main liabilities. Once upon a time, “safe as houses” was a no-brainer investment strategy. Anyone who now sees a house as a safe investment needs his head examined.
Juan Valdez Will Be Looking For Work
This will go great with a bowl full of bugs first thing in the morning.
Psy.org- Scientists release the recipe for lab-grown coffee to accelerate creation of new coffee ecosystem
It’s Got Nothing To Do With Excessive Regulation and Taxes
Blacklock’s- Creeping Black Market
The underground economy now comprises a third of the Canadian trucking industry, the Commons finance committee was told yesterday.
Wood said a 2022 Department of Employment spot check on scofflaws in Ontario alone “found gross non-compliance with more than 60 percent of employers” in contravention of labour codes.
Audits by the Canada Revenue Agency also identified widespread tax evasion, said Wood.
Best Healthcare System In The World
Financial Post- Young nurses are leaving over working conditions, study says
For every 100 nurses trained in the country who started working in the field in 2022, there were 40 who left the profession before their 35th birthday, the report released on Sept. 25 reveals.
Come, Behold The “Queering” Of Motherhood
And nothing screams motherhood quite like a convulsing bald man in a bodystocking.
The System Has No Reverse Gear
National Post- ‘How will I come back from this?’: Detransitioners abandoned by medical and trans communities
The National Post reached out to six detransitioners across the country. All were born female and suffered from gender dysphoria and mental health issues. Many experienced regret and felt they were too young and distressed to be allowed to consent to such life-altering interventions. Four agreed to tell their stories publicly.
One Government To Rule Them All
United Nations- United Nations adopts ground-breaking Pact for the Future to transform global governance.
h/t Cameron
We Can Rebuild Him
Also I’m a size nine-and-a-half in women’s shoes, if that is important.
Rescue The Republic
Matt Taibbi’s speech in Washington;
I was once taught you should always open an important speech by making reference to a shared experience.
So what do all of us at “Rescue the Republic” have in common? Nothing!
In a pre-Trump universe chimpanzees would be typing their fourth copy of Hamlet before RFK Jr., Robert Malone, Zuby, Tulsi Gabbard, Russell, Bret Weinstein and I would organically get together for any reason, much less an event like this.
True, everyone speaking has been censored. The issues were all different, but everyone disagreed with “authoritative voices” about something.
Saying no is very American. From “Don’t Tread on Me!” to “Nuts” to “You Cannot Be Serious!” defiance is in our DNA.
Now disagreement is seen as threat, and according to John Kerry, must be “hammered out of existence.” The former Presidential candidate just complained at a World Economic Forum meeting that “it’s really hard to govern” and “our First Amendment stands as a major block” to the important work of hammering out unhealthy choices.
In the open he said this! I was telling Tim Pool about this backstage and he asked, “Was black ooze coming out of his mouth?”
Tax Me Harder!
It’s too bad that the Conservatives continue to remain largely silent on the critical issue of repealing Justin’s capital gains tax hikes. The impact is far from trivial.
Based on conventional assumptions that an increase in the tax-inclusive cost of capital by 10 percent causes the capital stock to fall by 7 percent, I estimate that Canada’s capital stock would fall by $127 billion. Employment would permanently decline by 414,000. To put this in terms of its impact on unemployment, the capital gains tax hike would increase unemployment from 1.5 to 1.9 million Canadian workers as of August 2024. GDP will fall by almost $90 billion and real per capita GDP by 3 percent.
Chris Williamson with Tulsi Gabbard – Who Actually Runs The US Government?
Expect to learn what Joe Biden is actually like behind the scenes, why RFK Jr’s campaign didn’t succeed, the reason that Elon Musk’s X platform was so important during Trump’s assassination attempt, the truth behind Project 2025, Tulsi’s thoughts on Kamala Harris as a presidential candidate and much more…