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  • Giving it only to the poor, it is a charity intended to help people who are unable to support themselves.

    It’s also close to what we have now. If we start picking and choosing it just comes back to the current system. Wealth needs redistribution of massive orders to have an equitable society. Isn’t it wild that MSFT is one of the richest companies because they ripped off Xerox in the 80s? They’re not Canadian, but bad actors are rewarded far too frequently under our current system.

    So let’s also remove all tax deductions too, maybe carve out a system we find neccessary for society but take the tax off applied at purchase. If we feel they are needed so the product is cheaper from the consumer (ie. pharmacy drugs, textbooks, tuition, etc.), maybe even put the burden on the seller to collect the taxes at the end of the tax period. If they sell 100 textbooks at $200, and we give them to the students at like $180, then maybe the seller can recoup the difference quarterly during their tax time. This would make doing taxes easier for consumer, easier to audit for CRA as instead of potentially everyone having textbooks and having to validate you just need to make sure textbook sellers are claiming the textbook rebates.

    To go even further (which I think could be necessary with rich people getting play money under UBI, or they’d squirrel it away), be done with church tax-exempt status, non-profits, donations, investment losses as reducing tax burden, otherwise it’s very easy to screw the system. If you feel strongly for a non-profit, then donate! I wouldn’t discourage that. But the tingly feeling you get in your heart should be it’s own reward, we shouldn’t have had a financial incentive. It makes the whole thing perverse IMO.



  • aizakkutoCanada@lemmy.caLove to see it
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    I’ve been voting for 20 years, but follow US politics more than up here. I just know green/liberal/ndp would really benefit from any voting method that’s not fptp, and would enjoy a split on the right as well.












  • All systems should hold those with power responsible if they abuse power. I’d suggest harshest punishment for politicians via referendum of the constituents. Don’t like that people could put you behind bars for life? Don’t step into the political arena! Grift in the private sector if you need to be your worst self, we shouldn’t have to keep tabs on all the rat fucks in Ottawa (Canada). If they do some shady shit, jail em or worse



  • Pierre’s record speaks for itself, no need to muddy waters

    https://pierresrecord.ca/

    • Received a government pension at 31, then raised the retirement age on hard-working Canadians
    • Defined marriage as a union between ‘one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others’ (in front of his gay parent)
    • Visited and courted far-right extremist groups
    • Said Indigenous Peoples needed to learn the value of hard work more than they needed compensation for residential schools
    • Worked to bring American-style, anti-union laws to Canada
    • Said he’d use the notwithstanding clause, overriding Canadians’ rights
    • Committed to free votes, allowing his MPs to bring forward anti-abortion legislation

    Timbit Trump has had a terrible history as MP, I don’t want to see him as PM. Spread far and wide if you agree.



  • There’s a few issues with jerboa that I’d like addressed, maybe I’ll look into building it and issuing some PRs for it when I have more time. Can’t imagine it’s easy to maintain such a code base alone.

    Few things off the top of my head are keyboard hides text with long comments, and sharing links for federated communities gives a link to the instance it was posted on and not the instance I’m on.

    Also not being able to make communities in jerboa is a bit of a bummer, should also be easier to subscribe to communities on other instances too (web client).



  • Might I recommend github pages? Should be able to host all needed dependencies there too.

    https://pages.github.com/

    PS - jerboa android client didn’t show your markup, may I also suggest using 3x backticks to make it formatted as you expected? Like so:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lightbox2/2.11.1/css/lightbox.min.css" integrity="sha256-tBxlolRHP9uMsEFKVk+hk//ekOlXOixLKvye5W2WR5c=" crossorigin="anonymous" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js" integrity="sha256-CSXorXvZcTkaix6Yvo6HppcZGetbYMGWSFlBw8HfCJo=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lightbox2/2.11.1/js/lightbox.min.js" integrity="sha256-CtKylYan+AJuoH8jrMht1+1PMhMqrKnB8K5g012WN5I=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    

  • Pierre’s record speaks for itself, no need to muddy waters

    https://pierresrecord.ca/

    • Received a government pension at 31, then raised the retirement age on hard-working Canadians
    • Defined marriage as a union between ‘one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others’ (in front of his gay parent)
    • Visited and courted far-right extremist groups
    • Said Indigenous Peoples needed to learn the value of hard work more than they needed compensation for residential schools
    • Worked to bring American-style, anti-union laws to Canada
    • Said he’d use the notwithstanding clause, overriding Canadians’ rights
    • Committed to free votes, allowing his MPs to bring forward anti-abortion legislation

    Timbit Trump has had a terrible history as MP, I don’t want to see him as PM.