• @[email protected]
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    129 days ago

    For a “Progressive”, you sure do like to use Conservative talking points and nicknames a lot.

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      9 days ago

      Carney is running to the Conservatives for support more than he is the NDP. There’s a lot to criticize him for from the left. Whereas the right has got three tax cuts and a promise to hugely increase the military budget in just a few months of this government.

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        79 days ago

        We need to increase the military budget. That isn’t Conservative, it is a reality.

        What tax cuts are you referring to? I have only heard of the tax cut for middle class, and that was supported by the NDP from what I know.

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          59 days ago

          We don’t need to increase the military budget to 5% of GDP, a greater share than the US currently spends on it’s military by 1.6%. That’s insane and will certainly mean cuts to services like health care.

          Taxes cut under this government:

          1. Consumer carbon tax

          2. Capital gains tax increase

          3. Digital Services Tax

          Carney cuts taxes like he won as leader of the CPC.

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              19 days ago

              That doesn’t justify spending more as a percentage of our GDP on the military than the USA who spends more than the next 10 or something states combined. I’m not giving up nationalized health care because Donald fucking Trump wants to shake down NATO and make Canada spend 30% of it’s national budget on American arms.

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                89 days ago

                Cool.

                With that rant you have shown tou don’t understand how badly our military has been neglected.

                Your mindset only works if the US is actually friendly.

                And, we have been shopping elsewhere for new military equipment.

                Keep up.

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                  09 days ago

                  30% of the budget. Certainly the end of nationalized health care. That’s worth it to you?

                  And if you think the US won’t engage in the sorts of tactics it currently is engaging in to demand we spend more of our military budget on them then you are mistaken.

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                38 days ago

                I’m not going to suggest numbers, but think you absolutely need to invest more in defense against states with far right leanings, like the USA. The good news is taxing the ultrawealthy into oblivion can provide all necessary services.

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                  Okay, but Carney is not going to tax the ultra wealthy. His track record so far is cutting taxes, including one targeting the wealthy specifically. People talk about raising military spending without considering that that money is going to have to come at the expense of something else. We talk about the cost in terms of percentage of GDP because it makes a nice small non-scary percentage like 5%. But that represents just shy of a third of the national budget, over double what we just recently raised our spending to. That money is not going to come from new taxes on the wealthy, it’s going to come from cuts to services. Health care being the meatiest place to make those cuts.

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                    38 days ago

                    I’m not disputing any of that. Don’t follow the USA example anymore, is all I’m saying.