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Old 04-17-2024, 11:28 AM   #172
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I hope everyone realizes this is inning #1? Like, #### is going to get wild here. We want carbon tax at $170/T right? Isn’t that what all the smart politics threads tell us? Don’t we want taxes higher? Don’t we want higher service levels? Don’t we want this and that?

Can’t have everything. Have to have an economy, and sorry, that means yes resources need to be extracted and we can’t have the BC gov and 5 FN bands ####ing over industry left right and centre with their incompetence.

People want more money they need to support / get into the things that, ya know, make ####ing money. Wild concept, I know.

What industries pay like oil and gas? I’ll wait. Yet oil and gas are the ones #### all over all day by everyone.

Post of the thread.
Yeah, things are expensive, but Canadians don't want opportunities to actually make money.
People in Vancouver oppose every industrial project ever proposed and somehow think they should be able to work as a barista and buy a detached home. Insane expectations.
The challenges of inflation and interest rates are real, but at the same time we've done everything possible to stall the engine of our economy, stagnated upward mobility, and halted growth and investment.
This is a country of 40M people that is situated next to the biggest economy on earth. It shouldn't be this way. We've definitley gone wrong with our economics.
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