Of course, but income tax is progressive (rates get higher with income) whereas tariffs result in a flat increase which disproportionately affects the poor because it represents a higher percentage of their income.

Let’s take cars, for example. If steel tariffs mean that a car costs $500 more than it did before tariffs, that $500 has a far bigger impact on someone who makes $40k a year versus someone who makes $200k. That $500 is borne in full by residents of the country that imposed tariffs, which is why tariffs really only penalize your own people in addition to whatever industry of your trade partners you’re targeting.

Tariffs are a tax on residents of the tariffing country, essentially the same as a flat income tax increase on the whole population (i.e. a regressive tax curve, which is deeply un-leftist)

JFC this is what we’re destroying the environment for?

Look, you can’t have a superior climate AND a convenient time zone. Leave some for the rest of us.

Exactly. CPC leadership seems unwilling to understand that there’s a difference between a big tent and a Nazi bar. Since the Reform merger the party used to be the former, but now it’s the latter. It’s no wonder we’re seeing so many floor crossings, and it’s bound to get worse and probably accelerate. This will also badly hurt their candidate recruitment efforts - who would want to put their name on the ballot for this party other than people who buy into this ideology?

So it’s “transparency through incompetence”, the corrolary to “security through obscurity”

Sacrificing their only remaining ME ally is definitely not worth a transient distraction in the news. Losing Syria was a huge blow for them.

Agreed, this US attack on Iran is not going to happen. The best guarantee of this is that Russia won’t want it to.

It sounds like someone blowing a raspberry. The terrible name notwithstanding, I hope Carney can pull this off. I found him a bit disappointing in his first quasi-year in office but this would really deliver on his promise of Canada being a leader of the middle powers.

That’s why oligarch-owned media are so important.

Oh, so that means he isn’t a billionaire, I guess.

My doctor said 40 but YMMV

We already have Interac, a good homegrown solution. I’m sure it wouldn’t be that hard for banks to piggyback on it to make credit transactions rather than debit.

It’s perfectly on brand for the USA, really. This uppity woman didn’t listen to the man of the house, so he had to wave his gun around to remind her of her place. He was so distraught at his authority being questioned that his gun accidentally went off while it was pointed at his daughter. The guy feels bad, so it’s OK. Plus, as he said himself,

Kris Harrison had replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it [his daughter being sexually assaulted] would not upset him that much.

Quality reference! I always assumed she drew inspiration from that.

C’est une interprétation pas mal optimiste - je dirais plutôt qu’elle pourrait venir, pas qu’elle viendra :

On peut y lire que les deux pays prévoient de coopérer afin d’augmenter la présence de l’industrie automobile coréenne au Canada et créer des opportunités de fabrication de véhicules électriques au pays.

Yes, he’s such a patriot that he wants to ensure only Canadians have the right to fuck over other Canadians.

Oh shit, no way. One of the rare actors who kept getting better with age. Time to rewatch Moira’s wine commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUGKJ13RQq8

Pattison is an asshole but is somewhat of a patriot - they ran a bunch of pro-Canada messaging on their digital boards during the 51st state drama. Now excuse me as I go take a shower after defending him in the slightest.

DEATH PENALTY DECISION ISSUED! (there will be no death penalty)