Now I understand Grassfarmer

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The only explanation I can come up with, is that this book was released about the same time Grassfarmer moved here. Not being familiar with the culture, he likely saw the title, and assumed it was the prevalent attitude of Canadians, we are after all known worldwide for being very polite. Being busy with moving and building a farm, he didn't have time to read the book. Maybe we should take up a collection and send him a copy?

[checking]

We could send him a cc.

[Stampsguy]

I’m not sending him a nickel. It’s idiots like him, forage and chuck that vote these socialists in that have cost me (and all of us) tens of thousands of dollars over the years with there waste, ridicules programs, and wealth transfer schemes.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I’m not sending him a nickel. It’s idiots like him, forage and chuck that vote these socialists in that have cost me (and all of us) tens of thousands of dollars over the years with there waste, ridicules programs, and wealth transfer schemes.

Yes, most of the other irrational things he says, I can at least see how he could come to believe them, but today's post, asking to have an additional punitive tax placed on his livelihood is beyond any comprehension. Any socialists I have known in the past just want to tax everyone else except themselves. This is a first, he is either the most benevolent tax payer ever known to mankind, or else is just here to stir the pot, which is working well.

[chuckChuck]

When someone announces that now they understand a person or a a country based on one book or idea everyone should go have their belly laugh before returning to have a conversation.

It always is interesting to see the numerous attempts to pigeon hole others into a pre conceived idea based on a outdated political analysis.

There is no doubt that governments waste taxpayers dollars to some degree. Governments reflect the citizens who elect them. There is tremendous waste in all parts of our society including in private and public organizations.

Governments and all the things they provide are necessary to a civilized society. Taxes pay for health care, education, roads, sewer, water, legal system, defense, border guards, agricultural research, subsidies to agriculture and other busineses, the list goes on and on and on. And yes the Fraser Institute showed Alberta gets as many business subsidies per capita as Quebec.

When India slaps a duty on imported peas, who do farmers ask to fix the problem? Government.
When the market prices and cost of production make farming less profitable many farmers blame governments. When the transportation system doesn't work for farmers. Who can fix it? Governments.

You want all the benefits of living in one of the best countries on earth but you are not prepared to pay for it? Taken to the extreme many would become anti-taxers (free riders) if they could get away with it.

[burnt]

Yes, most of the other irrational things he says, I can at least see how he could come to believe them, but today's post, asking to have an additional punitive tax placed on his livelihood is beyond any comprehension. Any socialists I have known in the past just want to tax everyone else except themselves. This is a first, he is either the most benevolent tax payer ever known to mankind, or else is just here to stir the pot, which is working well.

Stockholm Syndrome being demonstrated, perhaps? Also quite feasible that he believes that shouting support for the schoolyard bully will spare him from the bully's attack?

Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago", mentioned in another thread, showed how the Communist regime didn't even spare its own ardent follwers. The malevolent intent of the communist dictators examined and murdered even those who professed support for the Soviet State - they just happened to have the wrong credentials. Or pissed off the wrong self-appointed autocrat.

So, grassant will eventually wake up to the reality that he will not be spared from the inevitable wrath of the ruling class because as a modern farmer he is classified as the cause of the world's ailments.

Reality has no play in this ideological purge.

[grassfarmer]

I'm a realist, dealing with the issues affecting us today and into the future. Don't choose to be a coffee shop whiner sitting on my hands arguing that the earth is flat.

[burnt]

I'm a realist, dealing with the issues affecting us today and into the future. Don't choose to be a coffee shop whiner sitting on my hands arguing that the earth is flat.

The irrational framing in your post(s) would solidly demonstrate otherwise, grassant.

Because if you would actually believe in the AGW hypothesis, you would not even be accessing this device of modern accomplishment, or raising cattle.

Unless, of course, you are content to be a hypocrite like the most famous of the AGW scammers...

So take your pick - a gullible sycophant or hypocritical self-aggrandizer. Or both.

[grassfarmer]

The irrational framing in your post(s) would solidly demonstrate otherwise, grassant.

Because if you would actually believe in the AGW hypothesis, you would not even be accessing this device of modern accomplishment ....

No, that's luddites you are thinking of and they are more likely to be in your camp - the backward thinking knuckle draggers lol.

[Hamloc]

The problem as I see it is that the carbon tax of $10 per tonne is just the beginning. By 2022 it will be $50 per tonne. A recent article on the CBC website quotes the parliamentary budget officer projecting that the federal government take on GST on carbon taxes in Alberta, BC, Ontario and Quebec alone will be over $250 million in 2018, going over $300 million in 2019. All new government taxation initiatives over time have been proven to only get larger and more encompassing. Academics propose a revenue neutral carbon as the most economically efficient way to reduce emissions. But no government does this because they want the money! Academics say let the carbon tax do the work. But no government does this. They decide what methods of electrical generation will be allowed(outlaw coal for example). Then like in Alberta they bring in additional taxes for heavy industry like oil and gas, cement, fertilizer,etc. as a farmer I see many possible scenario's on how the government will make farming less profitable. The carbon tax on meat production is just one. Nitrogen emissions from fertilizer will be next. I can see government requiring a plan from the farmer to justify how much nitrogen he wants to apply. I can see a huge increase in red tape. So yes Grassfarmer with your present business plan you will survive longer than some, but I don't trust government and I also don't trust large corporations and no offence I have a hard time understanding anyone's desire to be taxed more. Government is a parasite and can't survive without its host and has proven over time to increase it how much it takes from the host.

[sumdumguy]

What kind of grass are you growing, Grassfarmer?