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[Chef Boi RD]

All I know is, Hoss…the more we can help the billionaires the happier I am.

[Cousin Strawberry]

You can buy these cool houses surrounded by 5-10 acres in southwest Sweden for like 70-100k. Close to big clean lakes, rivers and ocean. I even found one on an island that was I think 60k

If you want wilderness, a house in Lappland is even cheaper. Moose, bears, lynx and reindeer in the forest and salmon in the rivers. Quite a bit like Canada.

There's a lot of city people from continental Europe who want to get away from it all and pick up houses in the outback for next to nothing.
Young people in Lappland tend to move into the cities on the coast, so there's a lot of houses in the woods that can be had really cheap.

USD 15,000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saN3mNdJerA

USD 30,000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku1hihc2zvE

USD 30,000: https://youtu.be/q6vezcuYbI8?si=rKQtV-6FDWFc0p_p

Not sure what these people paid, but clearly not much: https://youtu.be/K-PdBiGaiNc?si=bdTvDV5qfm0YS3N9

I like Dalsland alot. It's nowhere near as cold as Lappland either

[Chef Boi RD]

Trump claims Canadians like Doc, Topper and BC Expat want Canada to become America’s 51st state. Chef believes it. The proof is in their posts. Treason!! Traders!!!

https://globalnews.ca/news/10923704/tru ... 1st-state/

[5thhorseman]

^ the only thing random about this post is your choice of thread Dude.

Tbh this stuff is getting tiring. Is a 1-minute read based on some throwaway comment by Trump really worth posting on this board?

[Chef Boi RD]

really worth posting on this board?

Yes



You can always block me, Hoss.

[BCExpat]

Trump claims Canadians like Doc, Topper and BC Expat want Canada to become America’s 51st state. Chef believes it. The proof is in their posts. Treason!! Traders!!!

https://globalnews.ca/news/10923704/tru ... 1st-state/

Yes, Canadians are traders with the USA and the rest of the World. If anyone in this country is a Traitor, look no further than the left wing agenda that is being spewed out by Trudeau and his minions - they should all be in prison for what they have done and are still doing to Canada. If anyone else is a traitor, it's people like you who promote this shit.

And yes, if Canada became a part of the USA, I would be moving to somewhere in the southern states in a heart beat.

[UWSaint]

“The same day Trump walked back his promise to bring down grocery prices, Trumpy Poo reaffirmed his promise to cut the corporate tax rate to 15%. This would result in the five largest grocery stores getting a $1.7 billion dollar tax cut. Some populist, hey?” - Robert Reich

Reich's a socialist and an idiot. But I repeat myself.

The US grocery store business has notoriously low margins. Under 2% according to this report. https://www.grocerydive.com/news/grocer ... mi/720517/. Low profit margins are indicative of competitive markets. Competitive market drive sale prices to near costs. If you lower businesses costs (cut taxes -- or anything else), it is almost certain that in a competitive market that the profit margin will remain in the same neighborhood it is now. But since the costs will be lower, there will be lower-than-otherwise prices.

[UWSaint]

Income inequality in the USA was at it's lowest in the 70's. Then it started rising under Reagan and has kept climbing since.
Income inequality is now as high as it was pre WW2.

Income equality seems to be treated as the be-all and end-all, but an argument could be made that income mobility is a much better measure of the fairness of a merit-based society.

The problem with income equality is that is measures groups of people as if they are static, when in reality many people move up the income ladder through the decades.

You could argue that the increased income equality just represents the increased opportunity that the US has to offer (assuming income mobility has not decreased).

A good article on the subject:

https://www.cato.org/commentary/upward- ... ll-america

I agree with the mobility point, 5th.

If you think you can get ahead (and you want to), then being surrounded by greater success is encouraging (there is somewhere to go) not discouraging and breeding envy.

I'd add a corollary that baseline wealth matters a great deal -- if the gap between rich and poor increases 10-fold but the poor are twice as rich as they were, society is likely better off because more people answer the question "are you better off today than you were" in the affirmative. Oh, and there's the slow but meaningful lessening of true poverty.

Those measuring income equality as the health of a society would argue that if the poor were twice as wealthy and the rich were static, that's a better society because the gap is less. Even if there is less wealth in society as a whole. Or they'd argue that having the rich poorer and the poor static makes a fairer society. How does that make sense? Harrison Bergeron stuff. https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBerg ... n_djvu.txt

But my caution is that I think there are a few indicators that mobility may be on the decline, more people that think they can't be mobile, and certainly young people perceive themselves as being unlikely to achieve what their parents did. Some of this is psychological, some of this might be structural. Even the parts that are psychological are worth paying a lot of attention to (and trying to turn around), because mobility depends on people thinking there can be more for them if they take certain actions to achieve it.

[UWSaint]

Does Elon give two fucks about you?

https://www.instagram.com/share/BAG-t8xqrB

“Why do so many people feel like they’ve fallen behind? It’s not because of immigrants, trans people, the ‘deep-state’, or any other boogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It’s because corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy’s gains.” - Robert Reich

You know who rigs markets? Governments. Either when they set prices or they set "rules" for competitive that do nothing but encourage market consolidation. As I understand it, there's a lot of that in Canada these days. How is that working?

[5thhorseman]

You can always block me, Hoss.

Never

Just giving you some feedback man.

[Meds]

Does Elon give two fucks about you?

https://www.instagram.com/share/BAG-t8xqrB

“Why do so many people feel like they’ve fallen behind? It’s not because of immigrants, trans people, the ‘deep-state’, or any other boogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It’s because corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy’s gains.” - Robert Reich

You know who rigs markets? Governments. Either when they set prices or they set "rules" for competitive that do nothing but encourage market consolidation. As I understand it, there's a lot of that in Canada these days. How is that working?

The person you are asking (and those of his ilk) is too deep in the cesspool of leftist wokeism to objectively look at the situation and see true causality. Rather, the focus is hating on Trump and the political leaders and ideologies on the right side of the aisle. This is exactly what has happened in Canada since 2014 and stepped up massively in 2015 when Trudeau won his first term. 4 years later the economic and societal decline were obvious enough that his majority became a minority in which he didn’t even own the popular vote. A snap election 2 years later gave him the same number of seats but even less of the popular vote share. Because of his partnership with Jagmeet the Vacuous he has managed to drive the bus further into the ditch while fear mongering and spewing hate rhetoric about the evil people who would oppose anything he wants to do.

The current PM, and his government, is far and away the most corrupt and scandalous that has ever been in power.

But people like Chef don’t notice this (or they excuse it) because they can’t see past the villain that mainstream media has propped up at the behest of their governing masters.

[Chef Boi RD]

“The same day Trump walked back his promise to bring down grocery prices, Trumpy Poo reaffirmed his promise to cut the corporate tax rate to 15%. This would result in the five largest grocery stores getting a $1.7 billion dollar tax cut. Some populist, hey?” - Robert Reich

Reich's a socialist and an idiot.

Oh yeah, a socialist to the bone. Balancing the scales.

“General Electric, General Motors, Meta, Tesla, T-mobile had a combined $70 million in profits last year. Yet they paid an effective average tax rate of just 6.9%. Meanwhile the typical American family pays a tax rate of 13.6%” - Robert the Reich!

[Chef Boi RD]

Ran into Blobbee at San Remo’s. I knew he was only 5’-10”

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[UWSaint]

“The same day Trump walked back his promise to bring down grocery prices, Trumpy Poo reaffirmed his promise to cut the corporate tax rate to 15%. This would result in the five largest grocery stores getting a $1.7 billion dollar tax cut. Some populist, hey?” - Robert Reich

Reich's a socialist and an idiot.

Oh yeah, a socialist to the bone. Balancing the scales.

“General Electric, General Motors, Meta, Tesla, T-mobile had a combined $70 million in profits last year. Yet they paid an effective average tax rate of just 6.9%. Meanwhile the typical American family pays a tax rate of 13.6%” - Robert the Reich!

Do you know that those companies combine to employ 544,000 people, meaning that if Reich's numbers you report are correct, the average "profit" earned by the company per employee is $128? Workers of the world unite!!!!

[Chef Boi RD]

Good for them and their profits, so happy for them. How much do their “workers” make an hour? What’s the benefit package? Do they even qualify for benefits or is it just full time part time like at Amazon.

This is interesting. Apparently in America Walmart pays $12.77 an hour for customer service associate/cashier

https://youtube.com/shorts/uavv2ca5TIk? ... dA009ogzvE

Walmart gross profit for the twelve months ending October 31, 2024 was $166.413B, a 7.33% increase year-over-year. Walmart annual gross profit for 2024 was $157.983B, a 7.06% increase from 2023.

Walmart has 1.6 million employees in the states.

The corporate tax cut Trump is proposing I believe is fair. The billionaire’s need more money.

“You can never be too, greedy.” - Trump