karlhungus

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[–] karlhungus 14 points 16 hours ago

I concur, it's not false, but it's hard to call it true

from radio-canada.ca

When you include non-profit housing built by others with federal government help, it's more like 3,742 houses.

But it's hard for Poilievre to take responsibility for the 200,000 homes he says were built when he was minister. In the 2015-16 fiscal year, 194,461 homes were built in Canada in total, including by private developers.

[–] karlhungus 14 points 16 hours ago

Better article

Poilievre pushed back at Singh for not letting him answer the question and insisted that 200,000 homes were built during his ministerial tenure.

Both figures aren't entirely accurate. Singh's claim that Poilievre only built six homes as housing minister refers only to non-profit community housing units built exclusively by the government in 2015. When you include non-profit housing built by others with federal government help, it's more like 3,742 houses.

But it's hard for Poilievre to take responsibility for the 200,000 homes he says were built when he was minister. In the 2015-16 fiscal year, 194,461 homes were built in Canada in total, including by private developers.

[–] karlhungus 4 points 3 days ago

Totally! but would facebook pay? I just finished "Carless People" and those guys appear to be only in it for themselves

[–] karlhungus 1 points 3 days ago

I think it's important to reward people who save for retirement. I agree that you've got to have something before you can save. IMO taxing high wealth i.e. top 5% of the population higher rates so that you can fund the bottom 10% would go a long way to making sure things are a bit more balanced, while still rewarding your "hardest" (which are probably actually your luckiest) workers.

[–] karlhungus 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

A fine for a corporation that wealthy would have to be astronomical, at which point I'm not sure how we'd enforce it.

I'd prefer they just be denied to canadians, but I don't know if that would go over well either.

[–] karlhungus 2 points 2 weeks ago

I just got an email offering a $300 4 night stay in Orlando with $100 USD restaurant gift certificate.

To subscribe to Amazon Prime?

[–] karlhungus 1 points 2 weeks ago

They also shit on people's lawns.

[–] karlhungus 7 points 2 weeks ago

We have a "charter of rights and freedoms" in particular: https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/rfc-dlc/ccrf-ccdl/check/art2b.html. So as much as I dislike this kind of stuff they are still allowed to have it.

[–] karlhungus 33 points 3 weeks ago

I could see someone seeing that hat and assuming it's a MAGA hat, and kicking the guy out -- and the security guards "just doing their jobs".

It still sucks, and i'm glad they said sorry

[–] karlhungus 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

depending on the pr.... My thinking is I would have likely voted NDP with Liberal as second, rather than how i did vote: Liberal (party i thought had the greatest chance in my riding of causing us to not go conservative). I think this would likely have happened to a significant number of voters. Given all that I'm suspicious that any predictions that you could make given data under FPTP if there had been PR are valueless.

[–] karlhungus 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Assuming he pays 25% tax, which i'd be very suspicious about, he's about 2 million short of his current "fair share".

26 000 000 * 0.25 = 6 500 000

26 000 000 * 0.33 = 8 580 000

If he's deferring till retirement, then likely his tax rate is less, and the bank is lending him money which he can spend freely and call a capital loss lowering his effective tax rate when he does incur those taxes.

The thing about being this wealthy is you can afford to pay people to find ways to lower this rate.

I don't think i'm "mad" about this, but concerned. This kind of inequality leads to violent upheaval, and is currently the cause of a whole pile of unnecessary suffering. If we didn't have people that were this wealthy and some of that money was distributed to say education, healthcare, UBI, we could all have a much healthier pleasant life.

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What to do when you find a bug? (self.lemmy_ca_support)
 

I think i've found a bug, but i'm not sure the protocol for where to submit it.

The bug:

This comment: https://old.lemmy.ca/comment/3118239

For the regular view: https://lemmy.ca/comment/3118239)

  • clicking "show context" shows a sibling comment
  • clicking "View all comments", shows all comments but either my comment or the sibling comment.
  • clicking "1 more reply" returns nothing

I think the parent comment (and replies to my comment have been deleted. Maybe this is intentional behaviour

Actually this might be the bug: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3886

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