Wheat board monopoly to end
- Thread starter Locutus
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Don't confuse a lack of patience for stupidity, with my ability to keep going.
So I guess we won't be hearing from you on any topic you have no direct experience with in the future?
I haven't expanded the parameters. We have artificial price fixing in Canada. It benefits (and is supported by) the overwhelming majority of Canadian. Your initial question "Since when has artificial price fixing been in the consumers favour?" has been answered. I understand you don't like the answer because it kind of shoots holes in some of your arguments but you just need to deal with it and move on.
..and since we have a cheap food policy that means that those things are relatively cheap as well.
Yes, you can farm Crown land. But no, you can't sell it on the open market.
You have the CWB and those pesky laws.
I can farm Crown land? Really? So why aren't they in grain production instead of having cattle graze for two months a year?
Especially when you take commentary out of context.
It's ok pumpkin, I'm well aware of your fragile ego.
What do you know about commercial steam generation operations?.. How dare you comment on something you have no direct experience in... Boiling a kettle for your afternoon tea and cucumber sammies don't cut it.
Give it a shot and let me know how well you did on soil that can't be used for grain..
Ask bear. He brought up steam.
Artificial price fixing has not been the big consumer boon that you are suggesting, certainly not for the wheat farmers or all of those family farms that went (and are still going) tits-up.
Further, you're only fooling yourself if you think that a front-end benefit isn't offset by a back-end cost (read: higher taxes to subsidize the cheap-food-policy bribe).
I'm asking you. What do you know about it? What gives you the right to even utter the words unless you are a producer, marketer and transporter of steam or any of its by products?
Is that the best you can do? First you've helped show how non-pooled selling works and the obvious price gouging now you bring up steam as a deflection. You're not doing so good today.
I'm not fooling myself. I am well aware that everything is ultimately paid for by the taxpayer. The reality though is that Canadians would rather have higher taxes and a $2 loaf of bread than lower taxes and a $5 loaf of bread. We can argue all day whether that is ultimately a good thing but that is what people want.
Speak for yourself. I'd rather have lower taxes since we rarely buy bread and I don't like paying for someone elses food.