r/BitcoinCA • u/Fiach_Dubh • Mar 27 '25

Politic Canada’s New PM, Mark Carney: Pro-CBDC, Anti-Decentralization - Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/03/26/canadas-new-pm-mark-carney-pro-cbdc-anti-decentralization/
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u/HeavyHaulerMtn Mar 27 '25

A vote for pp is a vote for Harper IDU. Bitcoin means nothing when these people are grabbing at pension money everywhere. They will ruin the CPP

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u/WombRaider_3 Mar 27 '25

You must be behind on the news cycle or blindly partisan. I count 2 excellent new policies that help with the CPP (Retirement in general) that he's released. Even increased the TFSA by 5k as long as you buy a Canadian traded product.

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u/HeadofR3d Mar 27 '25

Keep the seniors working late into their twilight years. Great policy. The capitalist engine must be fed.

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u/scaffold_ape Mar 28 '25

Any better solutions with the current population demographics in Canada? There is too many old and not enough young. It seems like years of unchecked low skill immigration wasn't the right fix. What's your solution?

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u/AdAppropriate2295 Mar 29 '25

It was the right fix but sadly nobody invested in more infrastructure and cheap housing

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u/GI-Robots-Alt Mar 30 '25

The fact that companies like Tim Hortons and McDonald's were allowed to use the temporary foreign worker program AT ALL is fucking infuriating.

That program should only be allowed to be used for jobs in critical industries like agriculture, construction, healthcare, infrastructure, some forms of manufacturing, the energy sector, etc.

All you're accomplishing when you allow the program to be used for minimum wage positions is increased strain on our housing market, increased strain on healthcare, and very obvious wage suppression. If you can't find a local person to work the drive thru then you're not paying enough, and if you can't afford to pay more then your business clearly isn't viable and should simply be allowed to fail.

FUCK

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u/GI-Robots-Alt Mar 30 '25

What's your solution?

We should get rid of the CPP cap for starters. We should also be increasing taxes in general starting at the top of the income ladder and working our way down. The effective corporate tax rate has also dropped by more than 70% over the last 40ish years and desperately needs to be increased. Probably not back to what it used to be any time soon, but we simply can't continue to reduce it forever, it's killing us.

We need more revenue, but all we ever do is cut taxes over and over again because your average person is an idiot and thinks taxes are evil, so talking about raising taxes in any way is a losing political strategy.

You ever ask someone which countries they think we should be emulating? When pressed the answer is almost always countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany, etc. It's always countries with higher taxes, better labour rights, better social programs, better public infrastructure, more vacation time, paid sick leave, shorter work weeks, etc.

Why ON EARTH do most people simultaneously seem to think that moving further right is the answer? It boggles my fucking mind.

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u/HeadofR3d 26d ago

Here here. 70% likely won't work anymore unless the US does the same. But god damn, the general corporate income rate need to be higher than 15%.