@BedSharkPal
Capitalism.
Both the Liberals and Cons are pro-business, and charging more when you can get away with it is a Very Good And Brilliant Business Strategy.
I would really like to see an NDP majority the next time around. The Liberals and Conservatives are two sides of the same pro-business coin. The media which is in that camp and benefit from either being in power do a great job of painting socialism as a scarey bad choice, and this is believed to be true by many of the people who would benefit the most.
The vast majority of the programs that benefit people enlarge, health care, dental care etc. have been achieved by NDP parties pushing for these social values. They are not bad programs, they just cannot be monetized by the elite the way they would like. And taxes are not bad because that’s how these things are paid for, and the people who need the benefit but are least able to pay for it, also pay the least tax.
@scott_anon_21
I would *love* to see an NDP government, either a majority or even in coalition, but I don’t see it happening in the foreseeable.
Ontario is too deeply captured by the Lib-Con status quo; we vote Liberal until their corruption breaks everything, then we punish them for a term or two by sitting home and letting the Con voters have it. NDP just aren’t a serious consideration here.
I agree that this has been true much of the time but the NDP won a majority lead by Bob Rae back in 1990. I was a young Liberal voter at the time and recall everyone being shocked. Unfortunately we were in a significant economic downturn. They took a page out of the idea of right sizing rather than down sizing with what became known as Rae days. No one had to lose a job, they just put in less hours and everyone got paid less. But no one got paid zero. Lots of generalizations there but you get the idea.
Marit Stiles and her team are doing a creditable job of holding a majority government to account. They are actively working to make people aware of what the Conservatives are trying to pull. They are using social media to expose how big business is gouging us, proposing viable solutions and giving people the opportunity to find their voice and speak their mind.
Maybe we will turn a corner next election if people get tired of the buffoonery.
I’d still get him elected and lobby the party for doing domestic defence investment. That’d be easier to achieve than getting con or lib gov’t to not spend much more money on foreign equipment. We still have not canceled the F35 purchase.
How is this not against the law already?
@BedSharkPal
Capitalism.
Both the Liberals and Cons are pro-business, and charging more when you can get away with it is a Very Good And Brilliant Business Strategy.
Pro-business should be anti-trust.
Robinson-Patman Act is anti-trust.
Assume all buyers are potential sellers then price discrepancies are anti-trust violations.
I would really like to see an NDP majority the next time around. The Liberals and Conservatives are two sides of the same pro-business coin. The media which is in that camp and benefit from either being in power do a great job of painting socialism as a scarey bad choice, and this is believed to be true by many of the people who would benefit the most.
The vast majority of the programs that benefit people enlarge, health care, dental care etc. have been achieved by NDP parties pushing for these social values. They are not bad programs, they just cannot be monetized by the elite the way they would like. And taxes are not bad because that’s how these things are paid for, and the people who need the benefit but are least able to pay for it, also pay the least tax.
How is socialism bad?
@scott_anon_21
I would *love* to see an NDP government, either a majority or even in coalition, but I don’t see it happening in the foreseeable.
Ontario is too deeply captured by the Lib-Con status quo; we vote Liberal until their corruption breaks everything, then we punish them for a term or two by sitting home and letting the Con voters have it. NDP just aren’t a serious consideration here.
I agree that this has been true much of the time but the NDP won a majority lead by Bob Rae back in 1990. I was a young Liberal voter at the time and recall everyone being shocked. Unfortunately we were in a significant economic downturn. They took a page out of the idea of right sizing rather than down sizing with what became known as Rae days. No one had to lose a job, they just put in less hours and everyone got paid less. But no one got paid zero. Lots of generalizations there but you get the idea.
Marit Stiles and her team are doing a creditable job of holding a majority government to account. They are actively working to make people aware of what the Conservatives are trying to pull. They are using social media to expose how big business is gouging us, proposing viable solutions and giving people the opportunity to find their voice and speak their mind.
Maybe we will turn a corner next election if people get tired of the buffoonery.
Liberal my ass, you mean centrist.
Liberals are centrists. Liberalism is not a leftist ideology.
Because we dont ever elect left wing parties
True, both Libs and Cons are right leaning currently. We need Avi
Big fan of this guy except for his views on military spending.
I’d still get him elected and lobby the party for doing domestic defence investment. That’d be easier to achieve than getting con or lib gov’t to not spend much more money on foreign equipment. We still have not canceled the F35 purchase.
Because then never help either
An actual argument for would be haggling and bargaining at places like markets.
But to pretend selective pricing only happens there is wrong.