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[AlbertaFarmer5]

Zephyr for Prime Minister.

[LEP]

You're right.

The TFSA was a good start. A fund to allow persons to put their income into an account tax free for 8 years with no limits on the condition they start a business with those funds within the 8 year period would be a good start.

An incubator of sorts.


Banning foreign ownership and investment in single-family homes, individual condos, and individual townhouses.

Rejig our money laundering surveillance, policing, and prosecution systems with hefty fines and seizures would bring in billions of income while stabilizing home prices.


For a country our size, with every building material available within the nation and surplus land a "normal" (non-luxury) single family home should not be worth $1,000,000 never mind $3,000,000.


Rejig immigration to bring in people with skills from known countries that have skills, perhaps help some move that have talent and drive but aren't able to come on their own.


There would need to be supports in place for the bloodbath a 50% drop in housing would cause, but we are already in a position of uncharted territory.


Build out our energy infrastructure. Oil/gas, electricity (Manitoba and Quebec need to be able to sell their renewable power across a national grid), hydrogen, geothermal, biomass.

High speed train or Hyperloop tech connecting every Canadian city over 175,000 people. Power it with green/renewable energy from dams, geothermal. Build it now and put 50,000 Canadians to work. The effect it would have on GDP would be incredible.


Build out our nuclear power capacity.


Increase export capacity through more/new/upgraded port facilities on all three coasts.

Make inputs (land, buildings, power, resources) efficient and cheap to get. This will spur manufacturing and allow people to work good paying jobs.

Agriculture - disband FCC. Replace it with FSA type system. Max loans $1,000,000 max farm size to use 1500 acres. Interest free for a decade to those wanting to start a farm. We need more, smaller, diversified producers. Same for processors.
Production needs to be decentralized.



I can go on. But we're way off topic already!

Lots of good ideas. Especially nuclear. The small modular nuclear plants seem to have merit. Place them near coal fired set to be retired and no capital expediture on grid infrastructure because it already exists. This is a massive savings.

[SASKFARMER]

Totally agree that’s a great start to build canada and drop the stupid world plan that they are pushing where we are the hunger games fools

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Zephyr, you really need to post more often, one of the few on here with some optimism, and offering up solutions. You have started some good conversations, even if you don't always appreciate the feedback.

[woodland]

You're right.

The TFSA was a good start. A fund to allow persons to put their income into an account tax free for 8 years with no limits on the condition they start a business with those funds within the 8 year period would be a good start.

An incubator of sorts.


Banning foreign ownership and investment in single-family homes, individual condos, and individual townhouses.

Rejig our money laundering surveillance, policing, and prosecution systems with hefty fines and seizures would bring in billions of income while stabilizing home prices.


For a country our size, with every building material available within the nation and surplus land a "normal" (non-luxury) single family home should not be worth $1,000,000 never mind $3,000,000.


Rejig immigration to bring in people with skills from known countries that have skills, perhaps help some move that have talent and drive but aren't able to come on their own.


There would need to be supports in place for the bloodbath a 50% drop in housing would cause, but we are already in a position of uncharted territory.


Build out our energy infrastructure. Oil/gas, electricity (Manitoba and Quebec need to be able to sell their renewable power across a national grid), hydrogen, geothermal, biomass.

High speed train or Hyperloop tech connecting every Canadian city over 175,000 people. Power it with green/renewable energy from dams, geothermal. Build it now and put 50,000 Canadians to work. The effect it would have on GDP would be incredible.


Build out our nuclear power capacity.


Increase export capacity through more/new/upgraded port facilities on all three coasts.

Make inputs (land, buildings, power, resources) efficient and cheap to get. This will spur manufacturing and allow people to work good paying jobs.

Agriculture - disband FCC. Replace it with FSA type system. Max loans $1,000,000 max farm size to use 1500 acres. Interest free for a decade to those wanting to start a farm. We need more, smaller, diversified producers. Same for processors.
Production needs to be decentralized.



I can go on. But we're way off topic already!

Only catch I see is this requires our country to become unified and work together. That appears to a huge hurdle to overcome given our political situation.

[farmaholic]

There are some farmers and business people with low debt levels and cash reserves these will be making a killing going forward

Go on......

[makar]

61 years on this earth and still not a clue how zephyr thinks struggling to survive can build a cash nest egg, pipeline mentality, no profit no cash, bil still don't get it and yes he is plw.

[makar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq6L99Zf8fI

[RTK]

Quick look at that video and I thought to myself seems more productive work being done there than the paper pushers in a a lot of government agencies. Perhaps a few less regulations and a plan to get sh$t done would help our economy?

[makar]

This kind of work just to see the farm eat it has made me a miserable sob at times, but I am worth a lot money but cash poor, worst part is not seeing family for months on end, hell one summer never saw the wife and we were both home, I built leases all day and she worked nights.

[bucket]

Quick look at that video and I thought to myself seems more productive work being done there than the paper pushers in a a lot of government agencies. Perhaps a few less regulations and a plan to get sh$t done would help our economy?

Regulation creates useless jobs for people that are really too stupid other than to stare at a wall....

That's why we are paying people to watch Netflix.

[makar]

Regulation creates useless jobs for people that are really too stupid other than to state at a wall....

That's why we are paying people to watch Netflix.

Cousin had a stepson who is a safety geek, told him why does the the guy running the job hate me, he told him he has a job to do and you are his worst enemy.

[farmaholic]

Agriculture - disband FCC. Replace it with FSA type system. Max loans $1,000,000 max farm size to use 1500 acres. Interest free for a decade to those wanting to start a farm. We need more, smaller, diversified producers. Same for processors.
Production needs to be decentralized.

What do you get for a million dollars in grain farming? 2 - 4 quarters of land? New iron is insane, and someone has to buy new or there won't be any good used equipment. The trend is big, we have literally been left behind, by choice.....opportunities to buy or rent turned down.

Maybe people shouldn't have chased land prices past its productive capacity. The people that should be buying it can't. But now they get to trip over themselves and others trying to rent it because it's cheaper than buying it. Say that ten times in your head and see if it makes sense for the guy carrying most of the risk, it's fùcked right up. Speaking of laundering money.....you can attribute alot of Sask land price increases to foreign AND domestic money looking for a home, and the lion's share of that cash.....not a thin fúcken dime of it was money made in Ag.

I really don't think you have to incentivize young people to start farming, there's enough willing people, it's just nearly impossible under the current circumstances.

[Zephyr]

61 years on this earth and still not a clue how zephyr thinks struggling to survive can build a cash nest egg, pipeline mentality, no profit no cash, bil still don't get it and yes he is plw.

Quit struggling.

It's pretty simple.

I've never worked on a pipeline. I'm two provinces away.

Once you bring housing down and have people live decent lifestyles there is surplus money.

$1200 mortgage. $400 car payment

It's doable.


The problem is everyone wants the lifestyle of somebody who has gotten successful and worked their asses off without the work or knowledge to do so.


The trend is bigger because FCC is pushing it that way

Banks don't care if you farm 1000 or 100,000 acres if your margins are there



Quit being addicted to debt. This is all going to collapse in on itself and then we begin again.

[jazz]

Tell us how you started your farm zephyr. That will tell the tale.

Debt is a necessary evil for anyone starting or expanding a farm. I would need to clear $600k every year after living expenses to be able to buy another quarter of land each season. To clear $600K would require a 2500 ac farm free and clear to generate that cash flow.

Just one thing about your hyperloop idea. Canadians don't want to visit each other. People in each Canadian province visit the US more than any other province in Canada. Makes little sense to connect an already divided country.

There is only one way for Canada to be capitalized like you suggest and that's let the US do it.