• Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    how about you don’t focus on lowering costs, and instead CHARGE RICH FUCKS LIKE GALEN WESTIN MORE TAX AND DEMAND HOGHER WAGES FOR ALL CITIZENS SO WE CAN ACTUALLY AFFORD SHIT AND DONT HAVE TO EVEN WORRY ABOUT STUPID NSF FEES FROM NOT HAVING ENOUGH MONEY TO BEGIN WITH.

    enough with the fucking bandaids … go after the cancers causing this…

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      12 days ago

      This measure isn’t a bandaid for what you describe. Imagine a scenario where you got everything you suggest here, living wages and higher tax on the 1%.

      Would that mean that this NSF fee cap would be redundant? Not at all, we absolutely should be capping NSF fees as even in that scenario it’s a predatory poverty tax.

      Things like tax rebates for services instead of capping prices, or subsidies for services if your income is under a certain threshold instead of making it affordable in the first place, those are bandaid solutions. That’s not what this is.

    • maplesaga@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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      13 days ago

      Well given they did mass immigration to intentionally debase salaries, after leading to skyrocketing asset prices via money printing and stimulus, so I’m going to say they wont do that. Remember the quiet quitting phenomenon we had around 2022 when wages were actually rising, how that was quickly squashed by our very own NDP/Liberal coalition?

      Theres a reason the young are shifting to conservative while boomers love the Liberals, they protect their home values and their equity values. Then they make vague promises around climate change to fool the naive youth, while importing mass amounts of people into urban sprawl and hour long commutes since their housing plan is also intentionally ineffective.

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          13 days ago

          A lot. Including /r/canadahousing.

          It makes sense though, because how could additional demand possibly create shortages?

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              13 days ago

              Its artisanal grade gaslighting we’ve had for long while now. Meanwhile everyone with a brain can figure out that its to hide falling economic growth, as Eby and the sane MP’s beg for them to stop.

              Luckily we have Gregor Robinson as housing minister now, so we have the foremost expert in making housing unaffordable.