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Inheritance taxes are actually a method that ensures the rich get richer and the middle class gets poorer.

Let's say you're a global megacorp buying up farmland. You don't die, ever, because you're not a real person but a legal construct.

Now let's say you're an individual who owns a small farm. You do die, because you're a human being.

So the global megacorp never has to pay any additional taxes on its property because it's an immortal legal construct, but the individual's kids have to sell the farm to pay the inheritance taxes. The global megacorp buys the farm.

The ultra-rich who want to keep their assets can also use similar types of loophole to prevent their assets from ever being taxed -- So the people who end up paying aren't the rich, but the poor and middle class who might have a little wealth to pass on but not enough to utilize loopholes similarly. For example, instead of passing on wealth, the assets can be placed in a shell company in a jurisdiction without inheritance taxes (pretty hard to do with a piece of land with a single owner, but quite easy for other forms of wealth accumulation)

Want to know a funny thing about Bill Gates and Warren Bufett who both claim they should be paying higher taxes? Those charitable organizations they created and funded hold their assets tax-free, and so their kids can get cushy jobs at those organizations, transferring the wealth without any inheritance tax -- and in the meantime they can have a direct outsized impact on governments that help them accumulate more power and wealth! Win/win!

Honestly, it might shock them how fast I'd give up certain parts of the country.

If the US wants to make Quebec, southern Ontario, and BC into the 51st, 52nd, and 53rd state, please take them. Putin can take them too if the alternative is killing off generations of people in senseless conflict. The two can flip a coin, loser has to take them.

Take that, Margaret Thatcher!

(A shrinking proportion of people on Earth would get that joke....)

Reminds me of when I see people go "Oh my god! You're indoctrinating your kids!"

Of course I am! That's part of your job as a parent, indoctrinating them into being good, strong, just people. If you're not indoctrinating your kids, then you're probably raising shit kids who nobody is going to like.

To be fair, he thought he saw Kanye West and that's just how they say hi now.

I think you're misinterpreting what I'm saying. 67% of Canadian businesses were already in trouble because we're a socialist dictatorship that's one of the worst places on earth to run a business. Tariffs are just cream on top of very big cake. Nobody likes it, but the next step is leaving (and many people and companies have)

We're already in a per capita depression, and the only reason we haven't been in recession is millions of immigrants being brought in to live in subhuman conditions in unfurnished basements while working for minimum wage. Housing (not anything productive) accounts for 40% of Canada's GDP, and as a direct result of that fact, housing is unaffordable for human beings from planet Earth -- the average house price in Canada peaked at $850,000 nation-wide. The only way to afford a mortgage or rent is to have a high paying job of which there just aren't that many.

Insolvencies have been seeing meteoric rises from 2020 to now, all the while the government has burned through a cool trillion in debt.

There's tent cities in every major city -- in January. In Canada. They never used to be like this.

But it's like "oh no! Tariffs!" And everyone is acting like it's a bigger deal than it really is, we were already a dumpster fire, this is just another tire.

Forget a trade war, Canada can't handle another year of Trudeau period.

Everyone's focusing on 25% tariffs, but we've got another round of carbon taxes coming in imminently.

I want cheap gas and plastic spoons back.

Trudeau got all bitchy and was like "I'm going to spend another billion dollars securing the border!" But it turns out all you needed to do was tell the people guarding the border that they're allowed to do their job and magically the problem gets better!

Definitely the right thing to do. I mean, maybe he's lying about the whole thing and he's a good boy just selling a fake story to young men who don't can't get any, but that's why you investigate.

It's interesting to realize that most bloodlines on earth won't exist in 50 years. It's a collapse of meaning brought out first by modernism crunching all of human experience into a single line, then by postmodernism erasing even that line, and that lack of meaning is manifesting as people not doing basic things a human being will do.

The future is going to be horrifying to most people alive today, but it's going to be glorious.

BUT BUT LINE WENT UP DONT YOU REALIZE LINE WENT UP???

In every case with two sides and a resolution, there's usually one side that wins and one side that loses, and the guys who lost often thought they had a chance at winning, so the world is just messy sometimes.

If the left was honest and not a bunch of idiots, America's not even being the worst it's been this century.

I really appreciate the Americans not kidnapping any Canadians and sending them off to Syria to be tortured lately. Real white of 'em.

Not to mention going to a war that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people on false pretenses and destabilized region for decades. Really appreciate them not doing that for the last few years.

Suggesting that they might not fund a war they're not really part of, and putting up some tariffs isn't even on my radar compared to the things that the US is done in this century.

But don't worry, all the people who did the wars and the torture.... Campaigned for the other guy. Which is reason enough to oppose this guy if those are the sort of things that you like.

This is terrible!

Now how is Saudi Arabia and Iran going to criticize the west's civil rights record?

I am forced reluctantly to give you guys the go-ahead to nuke Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver.

It's the only way.

Yeah, I recall a news article from the end of the year that showed that some absurd amount of games being played, like 80%, are old, and a plurality, like 65%, are absolutely ancient.

Imagine, 30 million of those people are playing games over 10 years old

Part of the problem of the "rules based world order" is that people get autistic about rules written on paper.

As long as mean girls bullshit isn't codified in the rules then they assume there's no consequences. Then there are and it's all outrage like "but it wasn't against the rules!"

I've been thinking this a long time -- People seem to be under the impression that the military isn't the place you go to kill or break whoever or whatever you are told to kill or break, and you don't get to refuse.

So people are like "Oh, you are going to force me to dress in a certain way? You're going to force me to be called a certain thing or call others a certain thing?" and it's like "Yes, dumbass. That's exactly what joining the military is."

If there was a new doctrine that said that all hetero men are to wear sequined dresses into combat, guess what? The hetero men are wearing the sequined battle dresses. Because you're in the goddamned military.

I'm a civilian and always have been, but none of this is a secret, it's what it has always been. (And if I'm wrong I'm wrong, tell me I'm wrong and I'll adjust my worldview)

10 airplanes with 10 people who will only agree to fly the planes if we promise they won't have to kill anyone.