Several years ago I came across a graph showing relative tax revenues collected from companies and individuals. I don't remember the details, but there was a time when the tax revenues came mostly (or maybe equally?) from corporate taxes and now they come mostly from personal income taxes.
It seems to me that going back to that would be a good place to start. Once we have companies paying for the systems that allow them to thrive, we can tackle personal wealth/income taxation disparities.
I thought the warning label was because they were letting the stuff through. If they were stopping it, the warning label would be unnecessary.
You sound like some of the business people I know who seem to think that society owes them a business or that workers are their just deserts for having graced the community with their business idea.
I've been told for 50 years that I'm not owed a job, so I don't know why employers think they're owed the fruits of my labour.
What a bunch of nitwits. What's wrong with redirecting the carbon tax into alternatives?
Conservatives insist on means testing everything, so make a sliding scale of combined subsidies and tax breaks that pays for low-income people to go solar and/or install heat pumps. Less subsidy, more tax break as you climb through the income levels until you reach a tipping point at which there is no subsidy and the tax break starts to disappear.
The people with both money and brains are doing this stuff anyway. The small number of people with money and no brains will get taken care of by making building codes that require new construction and certain renovations to include solar and heat pumps and by pushing the carbon tax ever higher over time.
And think of all the jobs! Get some existing trades people with the right qualifications some training in the delivery of training and encourage them to open up their shops as training centres, then pay the tuition of anyone who enrolls so that there are enough people to do the work.
That's probably an oversimplification, but that's what smart bureaucrats are for, so stop gutting the public service and put them on the case.
I used to think that body cams for police was plainly a great idea. Now I think that there are a lot of potential problems requiring stringent regulations and enforcement along with meaningful and perhaps severe penalties for misuse.
For example:
That might go too far and might have critical gaps, but seems like a good place to start.
There were (and are) natural radio waves from things like stars and even something known as the Cosmic Microwave Background, the product of the Big Bang that created the universe.
However, they are not like rivers that we exploit for transportation, irrigation, and energy production. Instead, we have to generate our own radio waves to serve our specific needs.
In this sense, I find it useful to think of something like a lake. There are natural waves created by the wind, but I find it difficult how to imagine we would exploit those waves for communications because there is too much randomness built in and we have no control over the wind itself. On the other hand, it's relatively easy to imagine how we might create our own waves in patterns that can carry information.
An interesting thing about generating water waves to communicate is that it would be extremely difficult to make it work in practice. The waves degrade quite quickly over distance, so would need periodic repetition and amplification. Natural waves would mess up and possibly overwhelm our nice patterns. Other people trying to use the same body of water at the same time would be creating waves that would mess up and maybe even overwhelm our nice patterns. To get radio communications to work, people have to figure out how to deal with analogous problems with signal degradation and interference.
Are there even good alternatives to metallurgical coal?
It would seem that the answer is at least a qualified "Yes".
Some companies are already starting to use hydrogen in their process. Obviously, the source of that hydrogen is a concern. According to this article in the Narwhal, there is at least one company using only green hydrogen (from renewable sources).
Whatever the path forward, we couldn't go far wrong from banning Telus as a provider and/or developer in this space. Speaking as an end-user and former programmer, I think Saskatchewan's eHealth system might be some of the worst software I've ever seen released at this scale.
I didn't see any "shit journalism." I saw many references to external sources, including some from police forces themselves. That argues against confirmation bias, the more general bias that what doesn't meet expectations is more likely to get reported, and mere sensationalism.
Obviously, that does not mean that there was no selection bias in the choice of references. If you have alternative sources, use them or point us in the right direction so we can find them.
When recognizing that someone seems to be generalizing, it's worth asking whether that's because it is based on underlying facts or is just in service of an ulterior motive. My take (which may be just confirmation bias) is that the underlying facts argue in favour of some generalization.
Not all police are bad and neither are all departments and forces. But there are too many clear cases of bad behaviour to just ignore the possibility that there really is a general problem that must be dealt with.
I think that's a good point. Just off the top of my head, it strikes me that many political and activist slogans are like that. Maybe it's because short and pithy are antithetical to clarity or exclusivity.
Also the "public right-of-way" in this country is incredible.
I wish we had that in Canada. We weren't too badly off with plenty of Crown land and a few "right of access" to Crown lands regulations, but that is rapidly changing, at least in Saskatchewan.
Trespass laws are being changed to make it more difficult to exercise Treaty rights. Crown lands are being sold off. Some Crown lands are being sold in patterns that leave other Crown lands inaccessible.
Let each ~~person~~ business rise and fall according the merits of their work and quality of their duties. No ~~person~~ business is entitled to anything. Even respect has to be earned.