They’re not payment for future services, and certainly not benevolent gives from corporations and the wealthy.
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Taxes are payment for services rendered
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Capitalists don’t care that for many people, wages aren’t high enough to sustain a decent lifestyle, one where you don’t have to worry about how you’ll pay your bills or where you next meal will come from. They don’t care that low wages reduces purchasing power of consumers. They don’t care that raising wages would […]
Specific projects should be judged based on their specific benefits, not benefits they share with hundreds of other projects.
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Are wildcat strikes actually illegal?
In some of the rhetoric I see online regarding wildcat strikes, I see people referring to them as illegal. I wanted to talk about that usage.
Sometimes there are benefits that can’t be bought. And not all resources must generate a profit.
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One way homophobia hides within us
Homophobia and transphobia area more embedded in us than some of us would be willing to admit. Sure some homophobia and transphobia show up in pretty obvious ways, such if someone uses a slur or pathologizes sexuality or gender (such as calling them a mental illness) or even dismisses them outright by saying they’re not […]
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Union wages aren’t too high
Non-union wages are too low.
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My response: Drug tent another black eye
In today’s issue of the Lethbridge Herald, the publisher and advertising manager, Brian Hancock, took the liberty to use his platform to share his personal opinion about recent developments regarding the drug crisis in Lethbridge. He disparaged the now-defunct supervised consumption site, which was operated by ARCHES, as well as the mobile overdose prevention site […]
I’m not opposed to a consumption tax, per se, but it can’t be the only taxation source.
In the second quarter of 2020, Lethbridge had the highest fentanyl death rate in the province and had doubled ER visits and EMS responses.