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Some pretty standard anti-globalization type demands: end free trade; $20 hour minimum wage (yikes); free college; single payer healthcare; massive debt forgiveness; but they have one I actually like
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Wait, so they want to end free trade but open up all borders to migration? Weird. I mean, I don’t see the point, but ok.
Why not add drug legalization to that list?
Anyway, I’m inspired. Here’s my list of “suggestions” (I’m not demanding anything.) Practical changes that would probably make Canadian society better off.
1. Legalize all drugs;
2. Privatize alcohol sales and distribution
3. Replace the current income tax system with a lower, flatter tax on income, corporate profits, and capital gains; increase and harmonize sales taxes. Eliminate tax loop holes
4. Abolish the CRTC and the Telecommunications act.
5. Introduce major market based reforms and private sector competition into healthcare and education
6. Eliminate agricultural subsidies and tariffs
7. Eliminate all trade tariffs and restrictions
8. Privatize public transportation and mail
9. Introduce a pigovian tax on carbon or maybe just gasoline;
10. downsize police; replace with community policing model to make more accountable; cut spending on prisons…
11. legalize euthanasia
12. Increase migration through some sort of more open border policy
13. oh, what the hell… since this is fiction: outlaw the killing of animals
14. Replace all government-delivered social services with a system of vouchers
15. End government regulation of food and drugs;
16. legalize the sale of human organs (read: evil).
17. abolish the monarchy
18. eliminate the department of Indian and Northern Affairs
19. end all licencing systems for professionals: aka
“hi Dr. Nick”
20. Abolish all human rights tribunals
Idealism is kinda fun... .
Wow, I just read the demands for the Occupy Wall Street movement. I'm floored. I think only one of those demands makes sense, and that's #8 which has nothing to do with Wall Street or the economy for that matter. And #10.
ReplyDeleteBut the rest are just ridiculous. Too many people watching silly Zeitgeist you tube videos and taking it as the Gospel truth.
People on the left just have no basic understanding of economics as these demands clearly demonstrate their ignorance. I mean, end free trade and set up tariffs? Outlaw credit reporting agencies? Just WOW.
Yet, they remain pretty optimistic about this plan:
ReplyDelete"These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy."
lol.
My own list of demands read as follow.
ReplyDelete1. The state should provide unlimited cheese to all of it's citizens.
2. The state should provide 6 months of paid vacation to all it's citizens, employed or not.
3. The state should abolish the Glebe.
It's just tacky.
4. The state should integrate wildlife measures into it's cities.
Not enough people are falling victim to polar bear attacks.
5. The Chinese state should come up with a half-decent dessert already.
6. The state should stop letting CBC make lame TV shows. Their radio programs rock, what's the deal?
7. The state should enforce a citizen hygene rule. You don't bathe, you don't leave the house without dire consequences.
8. The state should start developing Super-Soldier technology instead of investing in boring security items such as body armour and tanks and high-tech weaponry.
Our soldiers would be far cooler if they were the high-tech weaponry.
9. The state should provide all of it's citizens with a canoe and a rifle.
10. The state should make it legal to stone public officials caught misusing tax dollars or influence in any way.
These are my demands. I have no authority or precedent of it, and there can be no consequences if these demands are not met.
Errr, here's hoping?
Hmmmm... "I don't like his bart killing policy, but I am in favour of his Selma killing policy."
ReplyDeleteHumor notwithstanding: I just noticed a big underlying difference between LV and AM's demands. AM's demands are all negative (the state shall not...) whereas LV's has a hliarious laundry list of entitlements (aka, positives), with the exception of 10 in which the state longer protects corrupt politicos from death by stones. So , uh... yeah, think about it! I got nothin'
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