Liberals are considering a guaranteed income for all Canadians

JamesBondo

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That opens the door to waste.
 

SLM

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I think the idea is not without merit, but I'd rather see utilities (Water, hydro, gas) made nonprofit public entities, and made available for residential use at no cost. Having all costs covered by commercial use. Then go from there.

Interesting. I'd be really keen to see what kind of baseline boost that would provide people and what that would translate into, what the next step would be, theoretically.

With all due respect, I believe you are confusing the issues of rights and remedies. championing a right is much better than championing a remedy, imo.

I know I'm not confused nor championing anything so you'll need to explain further because I don't think we're reading the same book, much less on the same page.
 

Curious Cdn

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In Greece it is not entitlement its the fact that everyone cheats the taxman

Their productivity sucks, too .

Mañana, mañana.

It must really piss off the hard working Germans that they have to carry the "Club Med" economies.
 

MHz

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I think the idea is not without merit, but I'd rather see utilities (Water, hydro, gas) made nonprofit public entities, and made available for residential use at no cost. Having all costs covered by commercial use. Then go from there.
Why not extend that to the banking 'industry' as commercial use is 99% of the transactions on any given day? Overdraft fees on the accounts of the poor are the ones donating billions ever quarter as 'interest paymrnts'.
 

CDNBear

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Why not extend that to the banking 'industry' as commercial use is 99% of the transactions on any given day? Overdraft fees on the accounts of the poor are the ones donating billions ever quarter as 'interest paymrnts'.
The adults are having a conversation. Why don't you go back to your Joo hating threads, and bring up the Rothschilds there, M'kay.
 

MHz

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Is this a serious question?
This should be interesting, bear giving a serious answer.
A financial thread where mentioning the World Bank is equal to being anti-semetic. That about sum you up?

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What bottleneck, if you have a Canadian birth certificate you qualify for the payment. In theory the children should be getting their own payments (bank-card) that is supposed to be spent by them rather than by the parents on beer and other (not so) adult toys.
If the trend is getting cooler then the northern living allowance should be applied to people that are now south of the current dividing line.
 

CDNBear

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I can't find the article, so I'm breaking this down from memory... Public decentralized databases leave the potential for the insertion of corrupt data or malicious code in an attempt to cause cascade failure or mine data.

I hope that helps.

ETA, I believe it was a report from INTERPOL

This should be interesting, bear giving a serious answer.
A financial thread where mentioning the World Bank is equal to being anti-semetic. That about sum you up?


What bottleneck, if you have a Canadian birth certificate you qualify for the payment. In theory the children should be getting their own payments (bank-card) that is supposed to be spent by them rather than by the parents on beer and other (not so) adult toys.
If the trend is getting cooler then the northern living allowance should be applied to people that are now south of the current dividing line.
Again, this where adults are talking. Please confine yourself to your Joo hating threads. You can cry about the Rothschils there.
 

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Just the retired ones.



Yeppers - I'm getting close to retirement and have saved RRSP's etc., - guess I'll spend it all now so that I can be guaranteed an income when I retire. After all, why should I live off of my hard work when I can live off of someone else's??


HMMMM????

That would work well up until the point where some poor bastard dies because he doesn't have the cash! :)



Oh hell, they still die even with universal health care where cash doesn't enter into it. Just heard of a guy who had chest pains and went into the hospital and they sent him home 'cuz he didn't have a healthcare card. Went to get a healthcare card - was filling out the papers and he had a major heart attack and died in the office!! Don't know why he didn't have a card - lost it?? But whatever, cash never entered into the equation.


Spoke to the sister just this past Friday and the family is considering suing the hospital. She rec'd a phone call from one of the doctors who said it should never have happened and it will never happen again. She's p'd because she doesn't know how he could absolutely guarantee that it wouldn't.

I thought she was talking about a brother in the US but no, it was here.

If the population of Canada is, let's say 40 million Government could give every adult citizen 1 million $s per year on a monthly payment plan, eliminate all other payments and pensions and still be money ahead. That ought to provide adequately for everyone.



Wow - could you imagine what the cost of living would be? A loaf of bread would likely be in the $50 - $100 range.


IMHO

I'm not being ridiculous. These things ARE indeed basic necessities. Why should other people have them just because they can afford them?



oh, you mean like now where if someone is successful and is doing well, others want a piece of the action? Some people resent the fact that he/she has worked hard to get where they're at and as a result, should be taxed to kingdom come because of it? So those less successful can get a piece of the pie without having to work for it?


You are correct in my estimation - if a neighbour has an Xbox and big screen TV etc., etc., there will be someone who feels that they too are entitled to have them too.


So, brilliant observation LOL


JMO