The "job killing" carbon tax.

[furrowtickler]

Just pointing out the partisan bullshit that inhabits this site. All jumping up and down with joy about American job numbers but failing to mention record job creation in Canada. Not you're all sure the extra Canadian jobs are part time low quality ones while the American ones under Don the Con are the best jobs ever created.

Sad you don’t see the difference from real jobs that help and government jobs that just suck the life out of the tax payer
That’s the difference, your a smart guy but fail to see this ?

[bucket]

What I don't understand is how in Canada there is a large increase in job numbers but our GDP growth is flat. 4th quarter of 2018 .1% growth, an uptick in Jan. of .3% but then a contraction of .1% in Feb. The government trumpets how we have the lowest unemployment rate in 40 years but we are still running a deficit! If more people are employed why isn't this increasing our GDP?

Exactly....When Brad Wall bragged about a higher population the numbers didn't and still don't add up...

More people ....more taxpayers supposedly ...more revenue....not to go spend on stupid shit like the CCS (saskatchewan's carbon tax folks)...or a bypass made for a city of 5 million or more people ( hint : clover leaf design would have done the same thing)

Politicians and the bureaucrats think the average person is stupid...and so do the farm group leaders...I have spoke to farm check off people...bottom line....they have been taking farmers for granted and when shit hits the fan ....they haven't a clue...they have to be nudged/kicked into action....now they are studying the impact....

Canola council have seen the impacts of the pulse thing and they didn't develop a plan...and are using the same lines...." market access solutions.." ....puke .....the american farmer is getting paid by government and the farmers are pushing that money right back into the economy...not a long term solution ....but it sure kicks the shit out of whats happening in western Canada short term....

[GALAXIE500]

Sure not showing up around here. Nearly every plumber, electrician , oilfield worker, all the gold mine/uranium mine workers , Lots of machinery dealer mechanics, salesmen , manufacturers , etc are laid off or sitting on thier arse. Construction , housing , infrastructure upkeep , etc in both cities are at a real low
Govt jobs which is what he is mostly making drain the economy not create wealth
U need to look at buisnesses that king donald is attracting and then look at the ones this fella has chased away
Oh wait heres one , trudope gave toyota $117 mill of yours and my money for a few jobs
The big man got them to invest $43 billion in plants in the US for sfa
I know you dont believe what you posted but someone might
If youre still not sure just make a call or two and see how easy it is to get any tradesman at thedrop of a hat

Down here where I live , (Maple Creek) and only one hour from Medicine Hat Ab, things are quiet. VERY quiet. Machinery dealerships, one in particular , hasn't sold one new piece of equipment in a year. The other one is busy fixing stuff , but nothing hardly going out in new iron. Hardware , agro , etc. is quiet. If Stats Canada would publish real facts and figures for the west , maybe the country could wake up from it's brainwashing.

[chuckChuck]

This is bad news because low unemployment leads to shortages of workers and rising wages. Workers will end up with more money in their pockets and start spending more! Families wont have to eat pasta and tomatoe sauce seven days per week. Those f.....g liberal morons what are they thinking? This is going to be bad for businesses who need lower wage workers. This is a disaster. Canada is a third world country already and this will make it worse and its all Turdo's fault!

Hey you know absolutely everything that goes wrong is Turdo's fault. There can be no other explanation. I am moving to the USA where everything is bright and rosy. Trump is the the smartest most honest president ever and he tells the truth and talks just like an an average guy. He's a no bullshit kind and wants to bring China down while having american consumers pay for the extra import taxes on everything. Make America great. Trump was so successful he only lost $1 billion in ten years. Good thing daddy gave his self made son a few extra million to cover his losses.

[jazz]

Trump was so successful he only lost $1 billion in ten years. Good thing daddy gave his self made son a few extra million to cover his losses.

Buffet loses a billion in a day in the stock market, gains it back, loses. Trump did the same. In the early 90s there was RE recession going on. The fact he survived at all is amazing. That's how business works. Its risk, but you wouldn't know that. There are ups and downs.

[chuckChuck]

Leave it to Jazz to explain how losing a billion dollars is a sign of a successful business. Is Art of the Deal your favorite book? Lol

[jazz]

Leave it to Jazz to explain how losing a billion dollars is a sign of a successful business. Is Art of the Deal your favorite book? Lol

Trump is subject to the same market forces we are, interest rates, bubbles, govt policy, regulations and cyclical ups and downs. Would you call a farmer who ran into trouble and expanded just at the time when the market turned a failure?

Unlike you chuck, I respect people who take calculated risk to get ahead. That's capitalism. I took a loss on some condos a decade ago before I bought more farmland. I don't consider that a failure at all. The wrong decision at the wrong time.

[may-be]

Down here where I live , (Maple Creek) and only one hour from Medicine Hat Ab, things are quiet. VERY quiet. Machinery dealerships, one in particular , hasn't sold one new piece of equipment in a year. The other one is busy fixing stuff , but nothing hardly going out in new iron. Hardware , agro , etc. is quiet. If Stats Canada would publish real facts and figures for the west , maybe the country could wake up from it's brainwashing.

Same thing here 2 hours east of Yorkton. The hardware stores don’t need as many people working. I need needed a electrician and had one in two hours. I also had two very good people that should be working asking me if I had any work for them.
As Donald Trump once said “right now our biggest enemy is the news media”

[jazz]

David Rosenberg doesnt beleive it either. Says its all fickle youth employment, debt. Should have been a 4% GDP attached to it.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/video/don-t-believe-the-latest-canadian-job-growth-number-david-rosenberg~1680731

[blackpowder]

Well, it's not a real job if it isn't a union job......

Trump's economy might be half smoke and mirrors, but ours is all Care Bears.
One leader has a record of getting things done. The other hasn't ever done anything at all.
The truth in time might show in the tax rate. Let's see where ours has to go in comparison.

[MBgrower]

Leave it to Jazz to explain how losing a billion dollars is a sign of a successful business. Is Art of the Deal your favorite book? Lol

apple, microsoft market cap dropped over 100 billion each in a couple months then went back up. yah, these companies sure most not know what they are doing.

[chuckChuck]

Don't confuse public companies share values that go up and down on the stock market that are required to report their profit and losses with Trump's privately held businesses where there is almost no information available. There is a reason he doesn't want to release his tax returns.

The 10 years of tax information the NY Times came up with showed that Trump lost a billion and then bragged about being a great businessman and then lied about his success in the his book "Art of the Deal". He has made a career out of show business and relied on daddy's money to prop him up. Without his daddy's money he would likely have been small potatoes. His book should have been called "Art of the Con"

But if these types of leaders impress you with their business savvy then I have got some swamp land in Florida for you!