Second cup of Coffee Talk

[dash]

This is why I try to never go to Walmart.

I parked next to this yesterday.

Safe to say that guy's spare tire is fully inflated.

 

[dash]

Hey, that's one way to avoid the issue of building cars that can drive through walls...

Ford cancels Mexico plant. Will create 700 U.S. jobs in 'vote of confidence' in Trump

 

[forty_three]

Here Are 6 Things House Republicans Want Ethics Investigators To Stop Doing

House GOP scraps plan to gut ethics watchdog after emergency meeting

Like cockroaches when you turn on the lights.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Honestly, WTF were they thinking?

 

[dash]

"Jesus had the right to face his accusers. He asserted that before the high priest. And we’re saying members of Congress shouldn’t?" said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa).

Members of Congress > Beatles > Jesus

 

[forty_three]

Honestly, WTF were they thinking?

They were thinking they could slide something in when no one was looking.

And in the next two weeks you will see nearly everyone who voted for it say they never read the provision and wouldn't have voted for it if they knew.

"We're not scammers. We're incompetent!"

 

[dash]

Stan, you forgot the exclamation point at the end of your tweet:


/In this case, he was at the 140 character limit (lol)

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Not that carbon taxes exist in a vacuum but countries that tax emissions in some form or other include: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland and Ireland among others. Pretty much a who's who of healthy economies. And all places where it's more expensive to live. I have no problem with gas prices going up. Home utilities? There I take an issue as some families could be really hurt here.


I'm not saying that it WILL work but a track record of economic success is there. I'm willing to give it a chance. Something needs to make 90% of my Albertan neighbors pull their heads out and realize that economic diversity is sorely needed in this province.

Moved this so we're not perma-hijacking the NFL thread.

I think the economic success in those countries stems much more from the fact they all have some of the highest tax rates on earth, something that will never happen here given that we have the population of all 6 of them combined and we also have the added hassle of 13 regional legislatures that differ greatly from each other and the federal government.

There's also the problem that anything Canada does is kinda pointless given that the US is the source of a lot of the pollution in our skies and their incoming government isn't exactly on the green train. After a few years of carbon taxing with little reduction in emissions it's gonna be pretty easy for the Conservatives to paint it as a useless tax by a greedy government trying to reduce a deficit they said they could control but couldn't.

 

[forty_three]

Moved this so we're not perma-hijacking the NFL thread.

I think the economic success in those countries stems much more from the fact they all have some of the highest tax rates on earth, something that will never happen here given that we have the population of all 6 of them combined and we also have the added hassle of 13 regional legislatures that differ greatly from each other and the federal government.

There's also the problem that anything Canada does is kinda pointless given that the US is the source of a lot of the pollution in our skies and their incoming government isn't exactly on the green train. After a few years of carbon taxing with little reduction in emissions it's gonna be pretty easy for the Conservatives to paint it as a useless tax by a greedy government trying to reduce a deficit they said they could control but couldn't.

Saying the incoming administration isn't on the green train is as much of an understatement as saying that Osama Bin Laden "wasn't sure" about that Jesus fella.


The best we can hope for is the costs associated with renewable energy keep dropping, making it more cost effective for corporations regardless of tax breaks to do so. I mean, sure. Donald is promising to bring the coal industry back and then will probably set his sights on getting all those typewriter repairmen back to work, but if coal is exponentially more expensive than solar or wind (which it should be), it will die a natural death, no matter the propping up it gets.

And we need it to happen, because we can't count on the average American to be okay with heavy taxes in order to, you know, save all of us. A lot of my countrymen feel that any tax is Tyranny.

 

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[forty_three]

Shocked. Shocked I tells ya.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Saying the incoming administration isn't on the green train is as much of an understatement as saying that Osama Bin Laden "wasn't sure" about that Jesus fella.


The best we can hope for is the costs associated with renewable energy keep dropping, making it more cost effective for corporations regardless of tax breaks to do so. I mean, sure. Donald is promising to bring the coal industry back and then will probably set his sights on getting all those typewriter repairmen back to work, but if coal is exponentially more expensive than solar or wind (which it should be), it will die a natural death, no matter the propping up it gets.

And we need it to happen, because we can't count on the average American to be okay with heavy taxes in order to, you know, save all of us. A lot of my countrymen feel that any tax is Tyranny.

That's kinda where they're going with electric cars and whatnot, which is another reason they'll have a hard time justifying this tax here. That and the fact that everything here is already more expensive than it is in the lower 48.

Can't wait until Brain Drain becomes a big issue here again.

 

[BGDave]

"Jesus had the right to face his accusers. He asserted that before the high priest. And we’re saying members of Congress shouldn’t?" said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa).

John Lennon > Members of Congress > Beatles > Jesus

fify

 

[jstewismybastardson]

interesting tweetstorm

 

[forty_three]

It would be a much better world if we could just replace the word "hack" to "guessed a password".

 

[jstewismybastardson]

when you drain swamps usually you can drill for oil under said swamps

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Found this kind of poignant. The oil and gas companies fuck the people over WAY more than any government in this country does.

 

[dash]

I just have to say that I don't mind what's happened to the stock market since November 9th of last year.

 

[forty_three]

Found this kind of poignant. The oil and gas companies fuck the people over WAY more than any government in this country does.

Weird, gas prices are steadily on the rise here too.

What cataclysmic event has happened that has so drastically affected the extraction of oil and production of petroleum?





Oh, that's right. Nothing.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Found this kind of poignant. The oil and gas companies fuck the people over WAY more than any government in this country does.

Debatable: