I wonder how these moves to Singapore affect the actual structure of these companies. Can they brand PRC-made products as Made in Singapore? I know the article said they’re looking into Indonesian production but I’m curious whether the actual company ownership changes or whether it remains Hong Kong/PRC.
I’m just thinking from perspective of type of offence. In Canada you can park in the middle of the road and that’s a non-criminal offence. You’re getting a fine if someone is bothered to write you up. Purposefully keying a vehicle on the other hand is vandalism, which is a criminal offence. If you get caught, you’d get a record and potentially worse than a fine. It’s a different level of punishment.
I suppose keying them is a criminal offence?
Today they’re smashing it at the rate of installation per year.
I never implied anything about the US.
So not trolling, alright. Sounds to me like you consider them competent in what they did well while not subtracting what they didn’t. Let me contrast the Russian government with something that to me looks much more competent - the Chinese government.
Richard Wolff’s Understanding Marxism any good?
They just keep running into faces.
You call competent a government that pulled the “special military operation” and led hundreds of thousands of its people into death for not much of anything? You must be trolling.
OK, so people can use the definition instead. In fact it might be more useful.
Are you telling me the hullabaloo wasn’t about antisemitism per se?
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.
I’m trying not to accelerationist but this clown car is getting pretty fast.
I’ve heard it flies when it comes to cross shipping China-Mexico-US or China-Canada-US. I’m not on the Trump train that thinks US is the victim of the world, I’m thinking about this from the perspective of whether it’s hard or easy to circumvent the current and incoming tariffs.