The Americas The Tyranny of Trudeau's Canada

[mrttao]

I thought this went well. Honestly couldn't have asked for better from the shop owner. "Show me the equation, I will use it to lower prices."

> "Reporter": This study found that taxing farmers and truckers for carbon has no effect on food prices

... and then he goes and gets some grocery store owners to explain to the idiot that actually, food does not just drop out of the sky. to get it in a grocery store it first need to be produced by a farmer, sold, shipped, and then delivered to a grocery store.

the sheer state of woke cultists just boggles the mind

 

[Bear Ribs]

> "Reporter": This study found that taxing farmers and truckers for carbon has no effect on food prices

... and then he goes and gets some grocery store owners to explain to the idiot that actually, food does not just drop out of the sky. to get it in a grocery store it first need to be produced by a farmer, sold, shipped, and then delivered to a grocery store.

the sheer state of woke cultists just boggles the mind

Incidentally, I hunted down the "study."

It turned out to be by a pair of career climatologist whose' paychecks rely on continuing to publish papers about how we need more carbon tax so a bit of perverse incentives there.

Some highlights for the TL;DR Crowd:

In the abstract we note that they're proposing taxes several orders of magnitude higher than the sample data they used as a base but they're sure that won't make any big difference. Also, they're angry because existing carbon taxes have perverse incentives and send the wrong message.

On page 3 we run into "the free market will provide." They're sure these taxes won't wind up affecting the people because they'll just adjust their spending habits and buy something besides electricity and food. No, I have no idea where they got the idea that basic necessities are highly economically elastic.

Same page, we find they're not actually examining their base data at all, but rather "projections" of what they think will happen.

Get a load of their "projections" on page 15. They're predicting sharp and severe deflation in the immediate future, with their massive carbon tax causing things to level out again. That's... a creative way to say you're not causing inflation.

 

[mrttao]

Incidentally, I hunted down

Link is dead due to anti hotlinking DRM.
it says session expired. I deleted the token portion of the link.
which said you are not permitted to see it without a token. go back to the article page and click the PDF link again

I suggesting downloading then reuploading it on some sharing site and then linking that

 

[Bear Ribs]

Link is dead due to anti hotlinking DRM.
it says session expired. I deleted the token portion of the link.
which said you are not permitted to see it without a token. go back to the article page and click the PDF link again

I suggesting downloading then reuploading it on some sharing site and then linking that

Here's the article page, should work from there.

Carbon Taxation and Greenflation: Evidence from Europe and Canada

Abstract. This paper studies the effects of carbon pricing on inflation dynamics. We construct a sample of carbon taxes implemented in Europe and Canada ov

academic.oup.com

 

[mrttao]

Here's the article page, should work from there.

Carbon Taxation and Greenflation: Evidence from Europe and Canada

Abstract. This paper studies the effects of carbon pricing on inflation dynamics. We construct a sample of carbon taxes implemented in Europe and Canada ov

academic.oup.com

thank you.

might as well post that TLDR you wrote up on the youtube video comments.
there is a chance of lots of people seeing what you wrote before youtube censors it.
... unless it gets flagged by their AI

 

[TheRomanSlayer]

Well, I did personally get the Facebook notification about the Online News Act, which technically bans us from sharing online news on both Facebook and Instagram. It's not like we'll be able to share those links on TikTok

 

[The Whispering Monk]

Well, I did personally get the Facebook notification about the Online News Act, which technically bans us from sharing online news on both Facebook and Instagram. It's not like we'll be able to share those links on TikTok

Wait...what?

 

[TheRomanSlayer]

Wait...what?

News Regulations | Transparency Center

Meta regularly publishes reports to give our community visibility into community standards enforcement, government requests and internet disruptions

transparency.fb.com

 

[mrttao]

News Regulations | Transparency Center

Meta regularly publishes reports to give our community visibility into community standards enforcement, government requests and internet disruptions

transparency.fb.com

Ah. So it is america's hat.
Apparently Commieda is cracking down on "misinformation" by banning any news on social media.
They want to control the sources of your news.

 

[Cherico]

Ah. So it is america's hat.
Apparently Commieda is cracking down on "misinformation" by banning any news on social media.
They want to control the sources of your news.

More and more I think trudue will go down as the man who killed Canada

 

[TheRomanSlayer]

More and more I think trudue will go down as the man who killed Canada

Well, Canada is basically a “post-national” state.

 

[Cherico]

Well, Canada is basically a “post-national” state.

Thats just a fancy way of saying failed state

 

[Bear Ribs]

Ah. So it is america's hat.
Apparently Commieda is cracking down on "misinformation" by banning any news on social media.
They want to control the sources of your news.

As I understand it, it's less about misinformation in this case, and more that the act would make Meta pay royalties for all the news articles anybody posted, even if they weren't the ones sharing the news that fact that any use discussed the news or linked to it would cause an automatic charge to Meta.

I read some analysis in which Meta concluded that Canadian news was worth maybe 3% of their total revenues from all Canadian users, and the royalties would be many times that, so they elected to ban Canadian news entirely. This is a bit of a surprise, a lot of people expected that Facebook was bluffing when they said they'd cut Canada off.

Alphabet has announced they're going to do the same thing in December for the same reason. If the law isn't repealed by then, Canadian citizens searching on Google will never find any Canadian news sites, news videos, or reports by Canadian newspapers.

No Bluff: Meta Shocks Broadcasters By Banning News In Canada - Radio Ink

Social media behemoth Meta is blocking news content in Canada across its platforms in response to a new law demanding pay for publishers.

radioink.com

 

[Wargamer08]

Huh so instead of thought control, it was a tax. No wonder companies are refusing to help.

 

[DarthOne]

Huh so instead of thought control, it was a tax. No wonder companies are refusing to help.

I’m not sorry.

 

[mrttao]

Huh so instead of thought control, it was a tax. No wonder companies are refusing to help.

I would not at all be surprised if the tax was specifically for though control.
Taxing "unwanted behavior" is govt 101

 

[Bassoe]

Dude just outdid even Bill Clinton in the area of extramarital affairs.

Bill Clinton should’ve just admitted that “yes, I cheated on my wife but in my defense, I’m married to Hillary Clinton“ and watched the rights’ collective heads explode as they tried to decide whether to attack him and in doing so defend Hillary or vice versa.

 

[The One Char]

Bill Clinton should’ve just admitted that “yes, I cheated on my wife but in my defense, I’m married to Hillary Clinton“ and watched the rights’ collective heads explode as they tried to decide whether to attack him and in doing so defend Hillary or vice versa.

As funny as it would have been, it probably would have got him assassinated.

 

[TheRomanSlayer]

As funny as it would have been, it probably would have got him assassinated.

Or suicided

It’s too bad Canada doesn’t have its own version of the impeachment procedures, since there might be a few examples of what the Turd has done that would be impeachable by US political standards.

 

[Allanon]

Looking over it all, I sometimes feel like I'm in a sci-fi movie, sitting on a broken wall looking over death and devastation, wondering how it got to this point- sort of beginning after the events, then flashbacks.