Really the complete opposite.

I know, and that makes me even less inclined to have sympathy for the TSA as a whole. I know I should feel bad for the people working at the TSA, but I can’t.

And yet I can feel for them more, If the TSA was gone tomorrow I could not care.

I get it, but having people feel bad for the TSA of all organizations is a tall order. Why not pick a less controversial gov agency effected like say the National Parks and Museums?

I KNOW WHAT I GOT!

Cool, what does that have to do with making cars needed for most low income houses (if you have transit available you are very lucky in NA) then banning the cheap ones while subsidizing the costly and more environmentally damaging ones to produce all while gaslighting the public into thinking climate change is their fault and not on the massive companies (who also get exemptions and loopholes us little guys don’t)?

It would be better if people under stood that the solution needs to be cheap for people so they can afford it. People don’t pay for things they can’t afford for very long.

Most people don’t even care and did not know this even started, its just another failed attempt of the current government to gain support.

This one is extra silly, but the silver lining is that it has got people of drastically different political viewpoints something to agree on. You could have a talk show with the most rabid pundits from opposite sides discuss this and the only arguments would be what the worst part of this plan is.

There is also another component to this as well, everyone is supposed to get $250 in the mail (or direct deposit). And that’s also just bad tax policy that has been made fun of in the past. On top of that they have not managed to actually pass legislation or even figured out how to do this at this point. Oh and the post office is still on strike.

Yeap, this is Canada where stuff like this is rolled out in a month or so and businesses are just told to comply.

(Oh and those examples are from the Canada.ca official list not hyperbole)

Edit: it also comes with a friendly threat!

"Make a reasonable effort to comply

Businesses who make reasonable efforts to comply with the legislation will not be the focus of our compliance actions.

We will be focusing on situations where businesses willfully and egregiously refuse to comply with the temporary measures, such as a business that collects the GST/HST and does not remit it to the CRA."

How’s that transit in California doing?

So, used prices go up more?

I can’t see any issues with the pending affordability among people who can not afford a $60k plus car in a car dependent nation like the states…

I am just really glad none of the crap I sell is included. The list and logistics to comply with this “holiday” is insane.

Lets say you run a liquor store:

• Beer, cider, sake and wine are now not taxed
• But wine, cider and sake over 22.9% is still taxed
• Spirit coolers and premixed alcoholic beverages are now not taxed
• Spirit coolers and premixed alcoholic beverages over 7% are still taxed
• Gift boxes/baskets are taxed
• Unless those boxes/baskets have more then 90% the value in beverages that meet the tax holiday requirements

This is not even opening the other categories (Oh don’t even think about child car seat/strollers). The cost of this program on stores and taxpayers (the cost of it is payed by the lack of tax and also the tax collected being diverted to this program) is not worth the 5% off some people will see (since most places will just up the price 5%).

Edit: and as the radio just pointed out this is a tax break on mostly luxury goods so it only really helps the people who don’t need the help. (the example given was a dinner party would be 5% cheaper but a single parent’s heat is not).

Children sometimes pick up firearms from an unlocked safe that everyone thought was locked and an accident happens.

In my area of the world, that alone right there is reckless and criminal. You are not winning this argument out side of the USA since the very idea of a firearm put away anywhere WITH A LIVE ROUND IN THE CHAMBER is pants on head insane let alone unlocked, unwatched, and in a place accessible by children.

The same line of reasoning gets weird since with the same level of “care” you could accidentally leave a loaded magazine the firearm, or more commonly be stored with live ammo near by. This is just another US invention to sell you a solution from responsibility.

Oh and I have only one firearm (a marlin 22) with this feature, it sucks. It is not safe, you can not use the fire arm without a magazine (silly). It has needed repair 4 times in 5 years (it has malfunctioned both in a way that stops the firearm working and one time in a way that made the bolt slam down when the magazine is inserted sometimes leading to a discharge).

Or, hear me out, even the most basic firearm safety being taught before selling someone a firearm.

Well she is in prison…

For 2nd degree murder…

That is the neat part, it does not!

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/suicide-canada-key-statistics-infographic.html

so 4500 “suicides” vs the articles above 15,300 people. I don’t think 15,300 is a subset of 4500.

Ah yes, it is a “life style” choice and all that jazz… Not at all the inevitable result of decades plus of poor governance/systemic failures.

Not if you get the wrong type of pleasure out of those rifles I guess…

They did this already:

1997 Pontiac Grand Prix Wide Track 90s Commercial (1996)

This is how we get crap like “soaking”, can’t wait for what ever ludicrous thing is next.