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Corporations pay taxes on profits. If they aren't paying taxes, it's because the money you think is profits is actually either not profits or is subject to some sort of tax break. If the forces can't hold technical people, it could start with contracts that bind people who receive training to...

Raising That would make sense if the private sector is under-compensated relative to its productivity. Of course, the private sector is subject to the workings of mostly free market conditions and can't simply tax and borrow to satisfy demands in order to end strikes that are inconvenient for...

We like to do things on the cheap. Holding onto useful, if sometimes inelegant, historical properties and monuments and grounds is something other countries do.

It's certain that people will have to give up something else. Something must be squeezed; the policy makers can't usefully assume it will be all uses of fuel consumption.

One wonders what factors are at work which prompt goverments to cut stuff.

If the scope is egregious, businesses simply will choose not to operate within the scope. A significant problem for businesses is keeping of track of what applies - a problem large corporations that can afford legal departments are more capable of enduring. More regulations == more difficult...

A (surprising?) UBI from Reason.com that might mean things are not entirely awful in Canada. "Researchers at the Mercatus Center's RegData unit have found that the United States leads the industrial world in imposing command-and-control regulation instead of allowing markets to achieve desired...

Be nice to have "a lot" quantified. Regardless, common sense has been in short supply all across the political spectrum for a while now.

Late to the diversion, but... Anything collected as an "investment" only makes sense if it is truly rare - rare enough that its value is freely determined by market forces (specifically, auctions). "Book/catalogue value" is a comforting fiction, unless it is just the last price (or an average...

Wait until the Democrats are the minority in the Senate again. Then you'll hear all sorts of reasons 60% ought to be a threshold.

Pretty much everyone I've ever met who is nonchalant about the prospect of rezoning taking away asset values is someone who isn't at risk of taking the hit.

Doesn't look like anyone was "exonerated" either.

Doesn't make sense. A whiteboard is a void, a blank space of nothing useful. It isn't until a black marker is brought to bear that anything useful is set upon it.

It's a long way from magazine centrefolds to streaming video BDSM.

Trump isn't the only American politician who has sold out allies/friends. Not really a useful point of criticism.

There are two answers; that's one of them (ratings). Trump was/is always good for ratings. The other is political, hinging on the belief that Trump can win the Republican primary but cannot win the general election (and would, by the evidence, be a drag on Republican fortunes in many other...

Odd that people so opposed to him keep giving him a platform, particularly one with a sympathetic audience. What could they possibly be trying to achieve?

The centre-right in BC, regardless of names, has been a "Liberal"-"Conservative" coalition since Bennett brought them together as Socreds. It has remained so even while a rump of conservatives split off (with a conservative brand) after the Socreds dissolved and the BC Liberal party absorbed...

That's not as true as it used to be. NDP provincially in BC have been distancing themselves from the federal party (and talking about it openly), mainly to try and establish a more centre-left brand here where they are the default alternative to the centre-right. Federal NDP are determined to...

Leaving aside the strange gambit to change venues: basically, the greater the number of indefensible killings you are responsible for, the more evil you are.