liberal voters, of which i am not one, need to pull their heads out of their asses. they got scammed.
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i should have received about $800 in carbon rebates over july 2025 to april 2026 and i got $0. nothing.
this was my reward for being a good citizen and keeping my carbon footprint to almost nothing - they took away $800 from me and gave it to some shithead driving a filthy truck.
we're a country full of assholes and retards - the dumbest country in the world, and our immigration policy is making it worse and worse.
there's been talk about what the government should do to respond to the inflationary pressure brought on by increases in oil prices.
i think they should bring back the consumer carbon tax, along with the rebates.
i'd be set to receive almost $1000 from carbon rebates this year, if it wasn't cancelled, and i'd have spent exactly $0 on buying gas. this rebate was set to rise very quickly over the next five years, which is how the carbon pricing was always supposed to work. that would solve the problem of inflation hurting the poor dramatically better than any other ideas being proposed.
the gst rebate increase is going to be about $100, for me. roughly. that is 10% of what i would have got from the carbon tax rebate. i feel ripped off.
time will demonstrate that cancelling the carbon tax was a major economic and environmental blunder, both from the perspective of government and the perspective of consumers. it is clear that removing the carbon tax had no effect on inflation, as everybody with a brain understood would be the case. consumers are clearly no better off. now, the government is being pressured to send out rebates at smaller amounts, while abandoning the revenue stream the tax generated. the result is that the government has more debt than it would have, and that consumers are paying higher prices, while receiving lower rebates. worse, the incentive to shift consumption habits to less polluting behaviour is gone. everybody is worse off than they would have been because canadians proved they are stupid; we proved we couldn't follow a basic economics argument, we proved we couldn't do basic math and we proved we were easily misled by specious demagoguery that a smart 12 year-old would be able to work through with elementary logic. we proved we're dumb lumberjacks that couldn't follow the plot and could be led along by our retarded noses.
i would strongly support immediately bringing back the carbon tax and the carbon rebates at 2026 amounts as a solution to inflation.
trump is correct to call the terrorist death cult in iran crazy bastards, although i insist he'd be blockading them and putting them under siege if this was a real war. the only example i can think of where the purpose of the war was to open the ports was the opium wars in china, but this is not like that.
however, trump has enabled their insanity by acting like a retard.
he walked right into this.
the bombing, which trump clearly did not intend to order but now has to follow through on, should start any minute. i hope it is targeted at the ruling class, and not at the civilian population.
there's a fight brewing in canada about electric vehicles, which is aligning organized labour with the regressive right.
this is an old anarchist drinking debate.
take it away, antonio:
The trade unions, the Camere del Lavoro, the industrial federations, the Confederazione Generale del Lavoro, are the type of proletarian organization specific to the period of history dominated by capital. In a certain sense it can be maintained that it is an integral part of capitalist society, and it has a function which is inherent to the regime of private property. In this period, in which individuals have value in so far as they are owners of goods and trade in their property, workers have also had to obey the iron law of general necessity and have become merchants of their only property, labour power and professional intelligence. More exposed to the risks of competition, workers have accumulated their property in ever more vast and comprehensive “firms,” they have created this enormous apparatus of concentration of flesh and graft, they have imposed prices and hours and they have disciplined the market. They have assumed from outside or they have generated from within a trusted administrative personnel, expert in this kind of speculation, up to the job of dominating the conditions of the market, capable of stipulating contracts, of assessing commercial vagaries, of initiating economically useful operations. The essential nature of the union is competitive, it is not communist. The union cannot be an instrument of radical renewal of society: it can offer the proletariat knowledgeable bureaucrats, technical experts in industrial questions of general character, it cannot be the base of proletarian power. It offers no possibility of choosing individual proletarians capable and worthy of leading society, it cannot generate hierarchies which embody the vital thrust, the rhythm of progress of communist society.
so, unifor is sounding very conservative, and what is left of the left shouldn't be upset by it. there have been periods where capitalism has foolishly declared war on it's labourers, but capital has figured out that this is stupid and there are better ways to maximize surplus value than with the back of a shovel. unions are a necessary evil to make sure the capitalists remember this, but the unions will always align with capital, in the end.
once some chinese car manufacturers set up in ontario and there are union workers on the assembly line, the unions will shift their opinion. they will follow. they won't lead.
environmentalists are going to have to fight against the unions, who will resist change, but they should have always expected that.