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On a side note, sales taxes are obviously regressive. In general, on tax, I'm currently with the MMT folk. Taxes don't fund government spending. Their purpose is taking money out of the economy (to keep inflation in check) and modifying behavior - encouraging more of this, discouraging more of that. So I'm totally fine abolishing sales taxes altogether. But that's a much bigger and scarier shift than taxes/controls on necessities. 🥲

I don't object since whomever sells those has already maximized their prices under the current conditions.

Price controls are also an actionable, short term solution. I want someone to stop the corporate friendly theater and bite into those profit margins in favor of the working class. I'm disappointed that Jagmeet isn't doing that and I see the NDP as the only party that might have the balls to do these things. I see this proposal as more of the standard ineffectual corporate policy. Like the stern finger wagging at corporations that we saw on display by bringing Galen for questioning.

Here's what I believe would be a better proposal:

"Singh to scrap GST on home heating, grocery meals, internet and mobile bills, diapers, kids’ clothes and introduce caps on profit margins on these items"

Oh great. We live in a world where these fuckers set prices based on what people can afford. This change would provide more headroom for them to increase prices, effectively shifting money from the government to Galen's pocket. If Jagmeet is serious about tackling this, he should start socializing the big bad words - price controls, nationalization, creating national grocer/telecom/etc, company breakup. If he wants to tack on removing the regressive sales tax on necessities in addition - that would be fine. In the absence of changing the market, it's going to provide temporary relief and long term higher profit for the big firms.

Yup, from the first availability till today, no shenanigans.

Don't discount the other autos lobbyists. Some have invested heavily in new factories being built and have many more workers in the US combined. Not to mention they can keep selling gas guzzlers till we burn the planet.

Absolutely not.

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I'm trying not to accelerationist but this clown car is getting pretty fast.

Every time I hear a junior developer say we should rewrite something they have made 0.1 effort understanding, I thank the JS world for not giving a generation or two of developers a well thought out application development framework.

You lost me at shitting on legacy code. My brother in Tux, we don't rewrite code willy-nilly in the FOSS world either and for a good reason. New code always means new bugs. A shit ton of the underlying code in your Linux OS was written one or more decades ago.

This is because employees in South Korea can "only" work a maximum of 52 hours per week, including twelve hours of overtime. As a result, employees often have to leave work and go home even when important tasks have not yet been completed. For this reason, key employees of the Exynos team are reported to have worked unpaid overtime more and more frequently over the past few years, with the extra hours going unrecorded.

Why is SK's birth rate in the shitter.

We'll know if we hear any Big Ag name being raided.