New luxury yacht tax in Canada

[AJ Oliver]

Care to back up any of that tripe?  [that m4A, $15 min wage, and wealth taxes are popular with USAeans] 

That is very easily done, in fact it is so easy that you should know it without citations. 

Educated people know these basic facts about their own country. 

Why don't y'all ?? 

But anyway,  

Wealth tax (which would include a tax on Big Ass Bougey boats)    favored by 64 % 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-inequality-poll/majority-of-americans-favor-wealth-tax-on-very-rich-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1Z9141

$15 min wage -    favored by 59 % 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-inequality-poll/majority-of-americans-favor-wealth-tax-on-very-rich-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1Z9141 

Medicare for All -  favored by 69% 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-inequality-poll/majority-of-americans-favor-wealth-tax-on-very-rich-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1Z9141

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[fastyacht]

Yabit the Luxury Tax was still a collosal fuckup thatvcost more taxvrecenue than it earned  and destroyed a vibrant yacht industry.

Ever wonder why Van Lent, Lürssen etc became the only game in town these past two decades?

Like.l.Said. I was there and my career shaped by it. (For me in a good way but thats individual).

 

[LionessRacing]

future collective prosperity

Another way of kissing real prosperity good bye... as collective based economies have never been efficient nor effective 

 

[LionessRacing]

You are writing about trickle down economics which has demonstrably never, ever worked. 

We progressives believe in bubble up economics which has many facets such as raising the minimum wage. 

If our corporate overlords cared a whit about working people they would at least fight for $ 15. 

Oh my, clearly you have never passed an economics course based on more than belief... 

 

[LionessRacing]

One cuntry is a basket case, the other is doing quite well thank you.

We understand your challenges, but they are ones you have brought on yourself. We have recently elected Democrats here, in an attempt to allow you and the rest of the world to catch up. Please don't dwaddle about it.

 

[LionessRacing]

That is very easily done, in fact it is so easy that you should know it without citations. 

Educated people know these basic facts about their own country. 

Why don't y'all ?? 

But anyway,  

Wealth tax (which would include a tax on Big Ass Bougey boats)    favored by 64 % 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-inequality-poll/majority-of-americans-favor-wealth-tax-on-very-rich-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1Z9141

$15 min wage -    favored by 59 % 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-inequality-poll/majority-of-americans-favor-wealth-tax-on-very-rich-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1Z9141 

Medicare for All -  favored by 69% 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-inequality-poll/majority-of-americans-favor-wealth-tax-on-very-rich-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN1Z9141

You missed that poll on Cookies favored by 100% of toddlers. 

when you ask irresponsible people (also known as those who will respond to polls)  questions about whether other people should pay their costs for them, you get the kind of answers you cite. 

When your politics are once again validating Kipling's "Gods of the Copybook Headings" you are not on a good path. 

 

[AJ Oliver]

Oh my, clearly you have never passed an economics course based on more than belief... 

You know a lot less than you think you do . . . 

A whole lot of big time economists are now questioning trickle down, austerity, and the Wash consensus. 

Stieglitz, the IMF, The Krugman, Galbraith, and dozens of others. 

Where did you study Econ ?? 

 

[AJ Oliver]

when you ask irresponsible people questions

they are otherwise known as Americans. 

And a whole lot of them obviously know more than y'all 

And once again, you failed to produce a single "manipulated" stat. 

When it comes down to it, all the angry Reich has is baseless accusations and name-calling. 

Now scuse me while I go get my mast in column 

 

[fastyacht]

I am sorry to hear your mast has scoliosis.

 

[LionessRacing]

You know a lot less than you think you do . . . 

A whole lot of big time economists are now questioning trickle down, austerity, and the Wash consensus. 

Stieglitz, the IMF, The Krugman, Galbraith, and dozens of others. 

Where did you study Econ ?? 

Krugman ? The original poster child for Nobels being political prizes, and that every year somebody gets one in Economics ? 

I studied at Rensselaer, as  elective courses in an Engineering curriculum. 

Gailbraith? He was irrelevant before my courses in mid '70's, 

That there are dozens of economists who propose failing policies is manifest in many places. Even with the compulsion of "Men with guns" the "cold dead hand" stifles innovation and squanders productivity. You could ask the Kulaks, if you could find any. 

 

[kent_island_sailor]

Yabit the Luxury Tax was still a collosal fuckup thatvcost more taxvrecenue than it earned  and destroyed a vibrant yacht industry.

Ever wonder why Van Lent, Lürssen etc became the only game in town these past two decades?

Like.l.Said. I was there and my career shaped by it. (For me in a good way but thats individual).

Me too, it put a boot in my ass to get back to IT, which turned out to be PERFECT timing

* kind of a side digression, but the cheapest bastards ever were the ones with 100+ footers. Yes I guess I can drive to Sears and get you a few DieHard batteries and a trolling motor charger to get your giant diesels going, but wouldn't using the right stuff cost you like 3 minutes pay

 

[LionessRacing]

When it comes down to it, all the angry Reich has is baseless accusations and name-calling. 

No reason to pick on little Robert, his anger is due to his short comings....

 

[AJ Oliver]

I am sorry to hear your mast has scoliosis.

To be clear, I should have written "in column and tuned". 

 

[LionessRacing]

they are otherwise known as Americans. 

And a whole lot of them obviously know more than y'all 

And once again, you failed to produce a single "manipulated" stat. 

Hitchens Razor applies, and the effects of 50 years of progressives dominating education has lead to the results you cite, belief if fairy tales over reality, Politics instead of science, much lower literacy, reduced competence in STEM. Nice work Professor ! 

 

[kent_island_sailor]

I'll repeat this for effect:

RICH PEOPLE DID NOT PAY THIS TAX AND WILL NOT.

It bones middle class people who can afford a lawyer or a boat, but not both and it bones working class people who would have fixed the boat the middle class person would have bought but didn't extra hard.

 

[AJ Oliver]

Gailbraith? He was irrelevant before my courses in mid '70's,

Jeebus you don't know much. 

JK Galgraith (which you spelled incorrectly) had a son James who teaches at UT Austin, a great school. 

He is prolific, having written over ten books. 

Not that you would have read any of them. 

 

[kent_island_sailor]

Can you all can the PA bullshit and stick to just specific taxes on boats?

 

[AJ Oliver]

It bones middle class people who can afford a lawyer or a boat, but not both and it bones working class people who would have fixed the boat the middle class person would have bought but didn't extra hard.

Not up to your usual clear writing standards. 

BTW, don't know if you read it, but the cite I gave above argues that the decline in the Big Ass Bougey boat business 

was more due to the recession. 

It is really elementary logic to point out that, just because to events occur at about the same time, it does NOT mean that one necessarily caused the other. 

As the French gent above pointed out, they have high taxes on boats but still have boat manufacturing businesses. 

Sorry so many jobs were lost, but that is what recessions do. 

And we have all (or nearly all) been there. 

 

[fastyacht]

To be clear, I should have written "in column and tuned". 

I had a girl friend in middle school who had scoliosis. She went to the doctor for occasional tunings. But i did my best to get her out of column.

 

[silent bob]

What do you say to the 3 folks who now make $0 per hour?    I am going to tell them the truth.  I cannot afford them anymore.