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Originally Posted by RyeJay
Canada is not a socialist nation. Canada is a social-capitalist nation.
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Keep telling yourself that and maybe you might even believe it.
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Special interests go both ways, bucky-boo.
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It never ceases to amaze me how offensive "progressives" always get when someone questions their philosophy. A sign that it is based on dogma and not reality.
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Capitalism needs consumerism. Most consumers will never be rich (since rich people need the working poor to work for them), so varying degrees of socialism are needed in order to prevent mass poverty, as mass poverty is a burden on our system in the form of crime/police spending, reduced income taxes, reduced market spending, reduced corporate confidence for investment, and higher hospital costs.
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As opposed to your model, where everyone is equally poor because govt takes everything they earn above a certain level. As in the old Soviet Union, where the only people who rode around in limousines were the party leaders.
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If you think Canada has extremely high taxes then I doubt you have high school level math skills
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Nothing to do with math skills. It is simply self-evident when one sees bus drivers making $100K and nurses in Cape Breton taking home $250K. Those are noble professions - but they aren't THAT noble.
The reason we have growing public debt is quite simple. People like you demand things that nobody in their right mind would choose to pay for. But in order to get elected, politicians continually pander to your ilk. Hence we have bike lanes that do not get used, buses that run empty while others are dangerously overloaded, handouts to all kinds of special interests both big and small, while the fundamental services of govt get overlooked.
Unlike some I do not believe all govt spending is bad. But what I do believe is that the left, through a variety of means, has led us to a place where we can no longer afford to pay for many of those basic things we expect from govt. This appears likely to only get worse unless people suddenly become enlightened about how public finance works.
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