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NDP's Avi Lewis says Carney is selling Canadian assets to 'the captains of Wall Street' (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

I was talking about the article originally posted, and pointing out to you that Avi did address your concerns that he had ideas how to pay: taxation. Then you said they were communist, when I point out that taxation and communism has nothing to do with each other. you go off into something completely outside of this articles scope.

You also fail to acknowledge anything about the attractiveness of pidgeons.

But fine.

I know that Avi is against selling Canadian airports. I know that Canada ran all its own power services Mich better and more reliablly then post privatization. These things aren't mentioned in the article though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    My bad. There were a lot of people responding to my post, I guess I lost track of what specifically you were focused on.

    My main gripe with Avi is that his ONLY solutions are straight out of the communist book. There might be a place for some of that as a small part of a greater plan but that's not what he offers. That's where the whole "communism" thing came from. For the record, I was born in a communist country, so yes I know exactly what it is and how it ends up.

    Pigeons suck. Canada geese is where it's at. All that attitude..

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    My gripe with pp and carney are their only solutions are the same capatilism solutions we've seen for the last 50 years. These have not been working for most citizens. Web got serious wealth inequality, its true we don't have the same planned economy issues that people suffered under communism, but we are headed right there.

    Taxation of the wealthy is an economist recommended solution (capital in the 21st century), in this article is exactly what Avi is suggesting, while Carney is advocating for privatization, which I've seen fail again and again.

    Can you provide examples about when communists raised taxes on the wealthy and how that failed?

    Nicola teslea was famously enamoured with a pidgeon, I was attempting to show you I knew who he was, you should change your handle if you dont want people thinking you simp for elon

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Your question is just weird. Communists failed in general.

    I am aware of Nikola's supposed love affair with a pigeon. I made the goose joke to lighten the mood.

    It's pretty obvious that my handle is a reference to the scientist - how the fuck can a person be a disciple of a car??

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    If you can't point to specific instances of failure you should reconsider your stance until you've got the specific instance (really more than one instance). For example its well known that the planned economy lead to mass starvation is well considered a failure of communism. Not being able to point at even one specific failure of communism with respect to taxation is not very convincing when it comes to winning people over to your argument that Avi's proposal to raise money via wealth tax "is communism".

    Am I the only person in this comment section that understood you to be a car deciple?

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