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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Corporations aren’t your friends, they aren’t going to give you any preferential treatment that they aren’t seeing the better side of.

Capital flight is also not a thing, it’s a bogeyman set up by conservatives to avoid raising taxes.

Businesses also won’t leave. Their remarkable treatment in Canada will go down to slightly less remarkable. They moan and groan and set up a whole ad campaign about how this is going to hurt the consumer but that means it’s working. And if you mean “small business” there are so so so many way ways to create exceptions or offer grants to Canadians starting or operating small businesses, where the target is larger oligopolies and conglomerates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's absolutely a thing, most corporations are a couple people running a business, and capital flight is absolutely a fucking thing, Just look at the difference between Saskatchewan and Alberta over 50 years because of different tax/government policies with the same base conditions and people. And then look at Montana for a third perspective of the same base conditions. It is so tiring listening to people buy these asinine takes in complete rejection of reality.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny that you mention complete rejection of reality... Did you even read the article?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I posted it for the title, not cause I believe everything I read in it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well then your a fucking idiot. And I vote you off this country fuck face

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Being called this by what appears to be a Liberal supporter is actually a compliment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once again. Corporations aren’t your friend, no matter the head count. It’s that simple. Don’t simp for people who don’t give a fuck about you or your family. Full stop.

Second. Again. Capital flight is a boogeyman. Alberta and Sask aren’t comparable. Alberta has cities, amenities and established populations, Sask doesn’t. If you want to take anything flight seriously, how about brain drain in our high paying, sought after career sectors, where we educate our population only for them to leave for better opportunities elsewhere? Doctors aren’t going to stay for the pittance, and software engineers aren’t going to keep staying for the remarkable amount of investment the government is putting to try to establish STEM in Canada because the private sector isn’t competitive with their salaries. Fuck your capital flight, if these are the corporations you’re afraid of leaving I’m more than willing to say goodbye, because the ones who fill the gaps will likely see the case studies and change course.

I’ll give you a spoiler alert. They’re not going anywhere. Just like they haven’t left Aus, NZ or the other dozen and change 1st world countries with high corporate tax rates than Canada. It’s not happening, you’re afraid of a ghost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Alberta has all those things because what I said happened THEN, you disingenuous goof. Capital flight is brain drain, they're one and the same.

Aus, NZ or the other dozen

They've all been left behind. Fuck, you need to travel.