hello_moto

That's because you pointed out rent control in your earlier argument. It's not the end-all-be-all. I don't know why you picked that specifically knowing that Vancouver has rent control and to some degree it's fine.

His platform is more than rent control no?

> The one thing BC is doing correctly right now is getting rid of a lot of the market controls

BC got rid of Airbnb and that's one factor among many others that influence the pricing today: high interest rate, Trump tariff, China econ not doing well hence not a lot of Mainland China money flowing to Vancouver like it used to be. All these contribute to weaker demand.

The getting rid of zoning, while I fully support it for my own benefit, is yet to be seen IMO.

Their assets continue to generate generational wealth and once that concept is taken away, they lost the only leverage for power: wealth.

Billionaires don't like it when politicians put a target on them.

Billionaires (or Landlords) have been hiding behind class war for thousand years. They continue to find ways to divide and conquer.

The moment a popular politicians start to poke em a little bit is the moment where they will react swiftly

Their wealth grow unchecked depressing yours.

Could be.

Having said that US culture vs the rest of Western Nation culture mindset imho.

Majority of Europeans and Canadians don't see Governments as a Monster.

People have screamed that Universities tuition fees are too expensive for the RoI. It’s a separate bipartisan issue.

I guess we don’t need QA and Dev/Staging environment

The moment is threatened Canada , Denmark sovereignty and EU/NATO, countries are planning for life without US

Eventually US will be in isolation.

A news reporter turned SecDef will make one be like that… eager

Let them swallow that pill.

The rich can’t bring their assets without divesting and get taxed first.

Can you imagine if someone like Elon Musk got wealth taxed at 75% of his $400Bn?

He’s still a billionaires and USA coffers will increase by $300Bn.

He can’t replicate his success outside USA because USA has the market and the appetite to spend.

You wanna cut income tax? Get Wealth Tax in place. Not Tariffs and cutting Govt. That’s billionaires playbook.

I hope one day USA wakes up and realize the solution is wealth tax to these billionaires

People don't realize this but China is moving toward Service-based, naturally, as they raised their standard of living, thus education.

What's missing is not raising tax on Income but taxing Wealth: the super rich has their wealth sitting and growing unproductively (house appreciating is not productive, buying farm lands and rent it to other farmer isn't productive). Holding Limited version of a Ferrari isn't productive. Feel free to find other Assets.

Once the super rich completed their journey in this world, they will inherit billions to their kids, whose productivity output does not match the wealth they inherited, again, not productive.

Tax their Wealth.

At this point he loves being a bully.

Worked for multinational companies and the typical chatters are:

- US based employees get taxed less on RSU maturity but have to figure out how much they owe the Government afterwards.

- Meanwhile, EU and Canada based employees are all paying top rate tax and get refunded afterwards.

Interesting that US is the only outlier

Not income tax.

Do the top 1% income tax include those people whose wealth increase because of their assets? Something to ponder…

We shouldn’t tax productive workforce more (in fact, we should tax less). We should tax unproductive assets more and redistribute.

Regardless of the existence of Manufacturing.

Tax your rich fairly and you will see major shift.

Do better.