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"Make Canada Work for People Who've Done the Work" @PierrePoilievre who voted against #CERB shares a press release amending the budget that reflects zero compassion for low income earners and the #disabled 
A re-elected Liberal government will:
Continue to ensure that secondary earners—mostly women—can exclude up to $14,000 of their working income when income-testing the #CanadaWorkersBenefit, so that families can receive up to $2,400.
canada.ca/en/revenue-age…
Continue to ensure that secondary earners—mostly women—can exclude up to $14,000 of their working income when income-testing the #CanadaWorkersBenefit, so that families can receive up to $2,400.
canada.ca/en/revenue-age…
1/2 You can read abut the Liberal Party Policies for disabled people at liberal.ca/our-platform/d… #CanadaDisabilityBenefitAct was unanimously adopted Febeuary 2, 2023 as a federal income supplement for working-age persons with disabilities.
This is a facile narrative that Poilievre keeps insisting, preferring an austerity budget that will only make the vulnerable even more precarious without government supports ... none of this will affect housing prices, because that is driven by a lack of supply
1/2 Conservatives advocate #taxcuts that fuel #inflation, reduced govt spending, free markets, #deregulation, #privatization, free trade, and minimal government debt. Those #regressiveeconomicpolicies instituted by the Harper govt led to #deficits
2/2 elimination and reduction of #environmentalprotectionregulations and #consumerprotectionregulations.
If you are a Canadian and you vote conservative, you could have a memory loss: Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled
The Tyee’s full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/0…
The Tyee’s full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/0…
If you are a Canadian and you vote conservative thinking trickle-down economics can save Canada you could have memory loss:
6 charts show Stephen Harper has the worst economic record of any Prime Minister since World War II pressprogress.ca/6_charts_show_…
6 charts show Stephen Harper has the worst economic record of any Prime Minister since World War II pressprogress.ca/6_charts_show_…
If you are a Canadian and you vote conservative maybe you have a memory loss about the staffer for the Conservative party charged and convicted in the Harper era #PierrePoutine #robocallscandal deliberately designed to create #votersuppression. cbc.ca/news/politics/…
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The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is an 'independent, nonprofit theoretical US research institute', dedicated to 'the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, including physical, computational, biological, & social systems.'
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is an 'independent, nonprofit theoretical US research institute', dedicated to 'the multidisciplinary study of the fundamental principles of complex adaptive systems, including physical, computational, biological, & social systems.'
The institute is ranked 24th among the world's "Top Science & Technology Think Tanks" & 24th among the world's "Best Transdisciplinary Research Think Tanks" according to the 2020 edition of the Global Go To Think Tank Index Reports, published by the University of Pennsylvania.
In 'The ultimate think tank: The rise of the Santa Fe Institute libertarian', Erik Baker takes a deep dive & raises some interesting questions about its role & influence, asking 'Why do corporations & wealthy philanthropists fund the human sciences?'
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
Freeports and nature some thoughts.
Freeports aren't ports they are large areas of land including in some cases SSI's and National Parks. Some board members of Freeports and directors are local councillors.
#Freeports #Nature #Deregulation #RSPB #Wildlife
Freeports aren't ports they are large areas of land including in some cases SSI's and National Parks. Some board members of Freeports and directors are local councillors.
#Freeports #Nature #Deregulation #RSPB #Wildlife
Significant areas of natural beauty including Dartmoor, the New Forest, the whole of the Isle of Wight and the North York Moors. They also engulf entire cities such as Derby and Nottingham, Hull, Scunthorpe, and large areas of Liverpool.
The new freeports between them cover around 15,000 to 20,000kms2 – approximately 8% of England’s total surface area.
National park authorities were not consulted before being included in the outer boundary of the new freeports. Changes in planning regulations will affect them.
National park authorities were not consulted before being included in the outer boundary of the new freeports. Changes in planning regulations will affect them.
#NeverForget that the cap on bankers' bonuses was introduced as part of efforts to improve regulation of the under-regulated banking sector in the wake of the 2008 crash, which led to a decade of brutal austerity, & a dangerous increase in polarisation.
theconversation.com/bankers-bonus-…
theconversation.com/bankers-bonus-…
In many countries, including ours, unemployment spiked, household wealth evaporated & there were long-term negative effects on global economic growth, income inequality & political stability - & now our Govt is bringing back the same failed neoliberal policies which created this.
There is now good quality research into banking bonuses which suggests caution, with evidence of a direct relationship between “variable executive remuneration” (performance dependent bonuses) & risk taking, & other negative 'unintended consequences'.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
"States at war generally adopt interventionist economic policies to mobilize resources and manpower. #Ukraine hasn’t followed suit, instead pursuing dogmatic free-marketeer measures that suit #Western creditors more than its own population."
jacobin.com/2022/07/ukrain…
jacobin.com/2022/07/ukrain…
"Generally, #states at #war tend to nationalize key sectors of the economy to maximize armaments production and stabilize the civilian economy, both to prevent chaos in the rear and feed the army. Strangely, this has not taken place in #Ukraine"
"The idea that “#corruption” is the greatest barrier to development is a fiction used to justify trade #liberalization in which the stronger #Western capitalists inevitably win, to the detriment of the Ukrainian economy."
This was implicit in the #VoteLeave campaign - repeal of #HumanRightsAct #Deregulation - ultimate aim to reduce #UK to an ‘elected dictatorship’
#Brexiteer #Lexiteer and #BrexiteerNow - you are all responsible.
#YouKnewWhatYouWereVotingFor - so #OwnIt mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
#Brexiteer #Lexiteer and #BrexiteerNow - you are all responsible.
#YouKnewWhatYouWereVotingFor - so #OwnIt mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
#Brexiteer #Lexiteer #BrexiteerNow #BrexitEmbracer Far Left /Far Right/ Centrist
#YouKnewWhatYouWereVotingFor
If you didn’t bother to find out before you decided then you are a fool. 🙄
#YouKnewWhatYouWereVotingFor
If you didn’t bother to find out before you decided then you are a fool. 🙄
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The truth about #Grenfell is slowly being revealed.
Imho, it's now crystal clear that all the key decisions flowed from free-market fundamentalists' desire to always push for more #deregulation, regardless of the consequences, in order to maximise profit.
The truth about #Grenfell is slowly being revealed.
Imho, it's now crystal clear that all the key decisions flowed from free-market fundamentalists' desire to always push for more #deregulation, regardless of the consequences, in order to maximise profit.
#Regulation - or "red tape" - exists to keep society safe & civilised, for example by conserving biodiversity, preventing quack remedies, & ensuring air, food, water, products & working & living conditions are safe, thus protecting consumers, workers, the environment & children.
The Tories, the libertarian Right & free-market think tanks talk a lot about removing 'red tape', & deregulation 'removing barriers to trade'.
What this means in reality is letting corporations & unethical individuals get away with exploitation, pollution, & sometimes, murder.
What this means in reality is letting corporations & unethical individuals get away with exploitation, pollution, & sometimes, murder.
1. Let's take a look at what the government means by #deregulation.
Does it mean making life easier for people who are struggling to get by?
Not a bit of it.
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Does it mean making life easier for people who are struggling to get by?
Not a bit of it.
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2. People who need state benefits, refugees seeking asylum, even people seeking probate on a dead parent's will, find themselves meshed in an impenetrable thicket of red tape.
Has it got better? No, it's got worse.
Has it got better? No, it's got worse.
3. But let's say, to take an entirely random example, you're a ferry company that wants to sack its crews illegally and replace them with underpaid agency workers.
Or a water company that wants to pump raw sewage into a river....
Or a water company that wants to pump raw sewage into a river....
Starting a thread of my favourite rejected cartoon roughs... /1
A thread of my favourite rejected cartoon roughs... /2
A thread of my favourite rejected cartoon roughs... /3
#Wonk warning: a #thread on social cost of #carbon (SCC). We at @CVEPLLC expected @JoeBiden not just to reinstate higher SCC in his #dayone #climate order but also to look at incorporating #environmental #justice into it.
He did, and it matters. #OOTT /1
He did, and it matters. #OOTT /1
Background: when #federal #agencies write rules, they try to maximize net benefits or minimize net costs.
The goal is that adding up all benefits for (and costs to) society + all costs to (and benefits for) regulated parties should be > 0. /2
The goal is that adding up all benefits for (and costs to) society + all costs to (and benefits for) regulated parties should be > 0. /2
In this context, SCC offers a way for agencies to “monetize” societal benefits of #climate rules. Oversimplification version: Benefit = (tons of GHG avoided) * (SCC, in $/ton). There are couple of quirks, tho. /3
"Neoliberalism sees competition as the defining characteristic of human relations. It redefines citizens as consumers, whose democratic choices are best exercised by buying & selling. . . Attempts to limit competition are treated as attacks on liberty." 1/ .. #cdnpoli #cdnecon
"In the opinion of neoliberals, tax & regulation should be minimized, public services privatized. Unions & collective bargaining are market distortions that impede the natural hierarchy of winners & losers. Inequality is recast a reward for generators of wealth" #cdnpoli #cdnecon
Ed Finn: "Neoliberals view efforts to create a more equal society as both counterproductive & morally corrosive. The market (left free and unregulated) ensures that everyone gets what they deserve." 3/ .. behindthenumbers.ca/2016/05/11/wha… #cdnpoli #cdnecon
Why were tech platforms reluctant to moderate Trump’s posts, even as he repeatedly violated hate speech regulations?
The same reason why #Grenfell happened, why most jobs are insecure & low paid, why $26 trillion is held offshore, & why democracy is on the ropes: #deregulation.
The same reason why #Grenfell happened, why most jobs are insecure & low paid, why $26 trillion is held offshore, & why democracy is on the ropes: #deregulation.
Libertarian billionaires push to deregulate *everything* to help consolidate their power & wealth: they fund deregulatory political parties & try to saturate online, print & broadcast media with voices sympathetic to reducing Governments' ability to regulate their activities.
In particular, Libertarian-billionaire-funded, deregulation-supporting populist nationalist politicians' leverage of social media to spread bigoted conspiracy theories & #propaganda has gone largely unchecked amid a vacuum of laws regulating government speech on social media.
Happy to see this paper with @thoatley published in Socio-Economic Review. Building on the literature on the exorbitant privilege, we explore the drivers of American #financialization. The US financial sector almost doubled in size between 1980 and 2005. 1/n
Few other industrial democracies witnessed a similar increase in the value added by finance. Financial intermediation did not rise everywhere. Rather, it shrank in some countries, grew moderately in others, and expanded significantly in CA, AUL, IRL, the UK, & the US. 2/n
Interestingly, this growth does not appear to be due to internal financial #deregulation. Relative to other countries, the US deregulated little bn 1980 and 2017. Yet, it experienced one of the largest increases in the size of its financial sector. What explains this puzzle? 3/n
Part 1: The transition from subsidy to under-recovery and then liberalisation to deregulation of PMS locally referred to as Petrol and gasoline to others have had been rapid and all in a space of three months.
Nigeria has now entered into a market based demand -supply era all precipitated by the international oil price crash.
Part 2. The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), shall monitor market trends and advise the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and oil marketing companies on the monthly guiding market-based price.
#PMSsupply #Nigeria #deregulation #NNPCgroup
#PMSsupply #Nigeria #deregulation #NNPCgroup
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"The $3000 figure is the much broader figure that really gets to the heart of the success of this president's deregulatory agenda."
@RussVought45 talks #Deregulation on American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸 with @JanJekielek
"The $3000 figure is the much broader figure that really gets to the heart of the success of this president's deregulatory agenda."
@RussVought45 talks #Deregulation on American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸 with @JanJekielek
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"If you break the debt up into how much people owe, are they getting that much in value from the federal government? My suspicion is that they're not."
@RussVought45 talks about the #Budget2019 on American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸 with @JanJekielek
"If you break the debt up into how much people owe, are they getting that much in value from the federal government? My suspicion is that they're not."
@RussVought45 talks about the #Budget2019 on American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸 with @JanJekielek
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The #GST Should Never have Been Applied To ANYTHING, it only exists bc over 30 years of #Privatization of Public Assets that produced Revenue, the Revenue has Disappeared,on top of TaxCuts for Corporations & the removal of tariffs which had the
double wammy of sending manufacturing,textile industry,car manufacturing either offshore,broke or closed
#GST need to be removed From Everything
Corporations DONT Pay GST only Consumers pay GST
Introduce a #SugarTax on ALL Processed Food/Drink 20% per teaspoon(5g)of price,source of revenue &Healthier Population,long term Lower Health Budget
Raise Corporations Tax,Any #ProfitShifting
Corporations DONT Pay GST only Consumers pay GST
Introduce a #SugarTax on ALL Processed Food/Drink 20% per teaspoon(5g)of price,source of revenue &Healthier Population,long term Lower Health Budget
Raise Corporations Tax,Any #ProfitShifting
