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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... .
