It's a bad move, even on a temporary short-term basis. In the short run the amount of oil available will be the same, the amount of oil products people want will be the same, and thus the amount of "price rationing" required and therefore the price will be the same, whether the money goes to the federal government or to the oil companies.
yeah but it takes crosshairs off him so ya know... bandaids for all. you'll just be required to pay extra for those bandaids later since they will jack taxes on everything to recoup the lost income
instead they should increase taxes on the scum destroying canada, like galen westin.. tax his sorry ass so he has to consider selling that fuckin loblaws castle
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uninvitedguest@piefed.ca · 53 pts · 128d
I'd like to see this lost revenue offset by a windfall tax on oil & gas companies.
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 16 pts · 128d
LOL
You wish. (Me too btw)
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 128d
Didn't Avi Lewis air this point recently?
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 127d
Paid for by Canadians.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 39 pts · 128d
Winning!
Better options:
Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 128d
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 128d
* When there's no spare/idle capacity to produce more
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 128d
You are talking as if a banker knows this stuff, wait what he should? Well damn!
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 128d
You're supposed to only lightly nudge the markets. These heavy-handed approaches you propose sound like communism.
/s
patatas@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 128d
and mandating work from home where feasible, right? Right?
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 128d
What do you think there is some evil virus going on, how is big oil supposed to make their money if work from home is offered?
Custard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 127d
What? And reduce the value of corporate real estate? Are you nuts?
kbal@fedia.io · 23 pts · 128d
It's a bad move, even on a temporary short-term basis. In the short run the amount of oil available will be the same, the amount of oil products people want will be the same, and thus the amount of "price rationing" required and therefore the price will be the same, whether the money goes to the federal government or to the oil companies.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 128d
yeah but it takes crosshairs off him so ya know... bandaids for all. you'll just be required to pay extra for those bandaids later since they will jack taxes on everything to recoup the lost income
instead they should increase taxes on the scum destroying canada, like galen westin.. tax his sorry ass so he has to consider selling that fuckin loblaws castle
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 128d
There's always cutting services we rely on. Or wait, wait, replace them with AI!
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 21 pts · 128d
Why is Pierre Poilievre not the leader of the Liberal party at this point??? Ffs.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 128d
Because he's worse in every way.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 127d
Because he represents the Reform Party.
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 127d
Then the Liberal party needs to be broken up into the progressive conservatives and true liberal.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 127d
We have the NDP and the Liberals as that.
Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 128d
Digging a deeper deficit hole just so the oil and gas companies that will just pad their bottom line by increasing cost anyway for the consumer.
Imagine calculating what that deficit would be in dumping that money into public transit. Increasing service.
sbv@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 128d
What's stopping gas stations from raising prices 10 cents?
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 128d
That's the neat part: nothing!
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 128d
Competition.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 127d
What's to stop gas stations and their competition from raising the price 20 cents?
Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 128d