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This is also like the Obama stimulus package. Estimates range from what I've read from $100,000 to $500,000 per job was created/saved by the stimulus. People still insist on having governments create/save jobs ...
Hah! If only green jobs could be so cheap. They seem to be running at $500,000 to $2,000,000 per job promised which is quite different from jobs actually delivered. My guess is that the groundskeeper and janitor's jobs that were counted toward one such project's job total don't pay anywhere near $1 million per year.
No, but luna continues to librate. The Moon was the site of Heinlein's world where everything--down to the air we breathe--was commodified. On Heinlein's Moon, going broke meant quick death by suffocation. Frequently you'd see the motto TANSTAAFL (there ain't no such thing as a free lunch). There were also heroes. Me, I preferred the dystopian picture of rampant interplanetary commercialism drawn by Cyril Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl in their 1948 (1952?) classic The Space Merchants. If Heinlein's Moon was a kind of grim ideal, Kornbluth's solar system was a riotous but even darker waystation--perhaps a waylaid station. Proof positive that "you can't get there from here".
If you're going to commodify transportation (and I'm not saying that's a good thing), why not start from the top down, by selling off all the roads to private concerns? It would make "looking for a good cellphone plan" appear as childs' play. Endless fun for all. What? $47 to drive through this intersection at 4:47 in the afternoon????
Would sidewalks continue to be public (in credit card parlance, a "grace period"), or an object of desire, with "right to walk" marches? Or would we be reduced to communicating with neighbours using Aldus lamps "Sorry, can't walk over to you today, the dividend cheque was late."
Why is it necessary to maintain a film industry in Canada? Will someone die if we don't?
This can be said about everything: why maintain a political system, banking system, local health regulations, music, football, chess, etc. Canada really shouldn't have any industries or urban areas, just be exporting raw materials.
If these things are so great then someone is going to invest in them for profit without the government.
Film producers have no capital investment in property and with cheaper digital filming go wherever it's cheapest to film. They will find some government somewhere else in the global economy who will trade tax breaks for local jobs.
It must be nice to say it's O.K. to blow away 50,000 jobs and billions of foreign money being spent in the local economies. Who needs that here. I guess I should go on welfare instead.
This can be said about everything: why maintain a political system, banking system, local health regulations, music, football, chess, etc. Canada really shouldn't have any industries or urban areas, just be exporting raw materials.
Where did I write that we shouldn't have any of these things? Without health regulations, for example people *do* die. But stuff like chess and music and football (and the Olympics, for example), no: absolutely no public money should go into these activities. Let those who wish to participate in them pony up the cash.
Film producers have no capital investment in property and with cheaper digital filming go wherever it's cheapest to film. They will find some government somewhere else in the global economy who will trade tax breaks for local jobs.
Then people in Canada who wish to be employed will have to make it more attractive to film here, but without government intervention/incentives.
It must be nice to say it's O.K. to blow away 50,000 jobs and billions of foreign money being spent in the local economies. Who needs that here. I guess I should go on welfare instead.
You could take a pay cut or find other employment or move elsewhere. Where is it written that you are entitled to the job you want at the pay you want in the place you want to work?
Why should anyone be ordered subsidize your career in film?
"Tom is a well known racist, and like most of them he won't admit it, possibly even to himself." - Ed Seedhouse, October 4, 2020.
If your argument is that city bus systems should be covered by private companies funded by the ridership then we are in complete agreement.
I didn't exactly say I object to public transit or didn't want to pay from my taxes. I simply asked why I should when I don't use it.
Here's something that does bug me. I have a few shares of Air Canada. Most people think it's government owned but it isn't. I own it along with a bunch of other shareholders. I like planes and trucks. As you may have heard on TV, some of the workers are on strike. Great! They don't like the contract, hit the bricks. I'm happy for them they have the money to forego their fat salaries.
Now I hear on TV the government might order them back to work. If the government wants to do that and impose a settlement higher than the offer why doesn't the government pay the difference?
If it were up to me I'd contract out the call center. I'd contract out a lot of the other jobs as well. The last job I worked was staffing in a large call center with over 200 people. Arranging staffing on a 24/7 basis. That ended up being contracted out after I left. Lot of call centers are contracted out.
I'd contract out a lot of other jobs as well if people don't want to work them at a competitive wage.
Unrelated, look at Canada Post. They claim the rotating strikes have cost them half their business. The union is winning big time because a strike is economic warfare. So Canada post does what's available to them. They have cut mail delivery to 3 days a week in urban areas. They should leave the 3 day mail delivery permanently.
I don't doubt the figures. We started paying bills at the bank and stopped mailing other things when they started talking about the walkout. I ordered something last Friday. Normally they ship Canada post but I asked them to use a different courier because I didn't want the parcel sitting around if it turned into a full strike. The package came today by a different carrier.
You could take a pay cut or find other employment or move elsewhere. Where is it written that you are entitled to the job you want at the pay you want in the place you want to work?
Why should anyone be ordered subsidize your career in film?
This is not like the government signing cheques to organizations like the G20 fiasco. I know it's a difficult concept to understand but having the film tax credit actually reduces your taxes as the business created by it increases the amount of money the government receives. If there was no film tax credit (therefore no filming) the government would be taking in less money, losing more money than what it 'spends' on the film tax break.
This is not like the government signing cheques to organizations like the G20 fiasco. I know it's a difficult concept to understand but having the film tax credit actually reduces your taxes as the business created by it increases the amount of money the government receives. If there was no film tax credit (therefore no filming) the government would be taking in less money, losing more money than what it 'spends' on the film tax break.
I think that many industries enjoy credit breaks/credits. Even chess, or at least parents whose kids attends chess programs :D
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Unrelated, look at Canada Post. They claim the rotating strikes have cost them half their business. The union is winning big time because a strike is economic warfare. So Canada post does what's available to them. They have cut mail delivery to 3 days a week in urban areas. They should leave the 3 day mail delivery permanently.
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I agree with the above. Even once per week for mail delivery seems perfectly reasonable.
"Tom is a well known racist, and like most of them he won't admit it, possibly even to himself." - Ed Seedhouse, October 4, 2020.
This is not like the government signing cheques to organizations like the G20 fiasco. I know it's a difficult concept to understand but having the film tax credit actually reduces your taxes as the business created by it increases the amount of money the government receives. If there was no film tax credit (therefore no filming) the government would be taking in less money, losing more money than what it 'spends' on the film tax break.
If the business of filming is not profitable without tax credits, then the people involved in the business should either work for less or figure out a way to get the private sector to fund their projects. Should chess teachers demand a tax credit because without it there would be less chess teaching and therefore the government would get less income tax revenue? Most (99.9999%) people would say that's ridiculous and rightfully so. What makes film and TV programming so special?
"Tom is a well known racist, and like most of them he won't admit it, possibly even to himself." - Ed Seedhouse, October 4, 2020.
I didn't exactly say I object to public transit or didn't want to pay from my taxes. I simply asked why I should when I don't use it.
Here's something that does bug me. I have a few shares of Air Canada. Most people think it's government owned but it isn't. I own it along with a bunch of other shareholders. I like planes and trucks. As you may have heard on TV, some of the workers are on strike. Great! They don't like the contract, hit the bricks. I'm happy for them they have the money to forego their fat salaries.
Now I hear on TV the government might order them back to work. If the government wants to do that and impose a settlement higher than the offer why doesn't the government pay the difference?
Actually it would make more sense for the government to allow competition which would rush in and fill the void. I am curious as to why Porter airlines can get me from Windsor to Toronto for $42 when they have a seat sale while Air Canada has to charge me more than it would cost to fly to Los Angeles from Detroit.
If it were up to me I'd contract out the call center.
Aside from lost luggage, or non-routine issues why would you need a call center? Booking on the internet should be cheaper and more efficient.
I'd contract out a lot of the other jobs as well. The last job I worked was staffing in a large call center with over 200 people. Arranging staffing on a 24/7 basis. That ended up being contracted out after I left. Lot of call centers are contracted out.
I'd contract out a lot of other jobs as well if people don't want to work them at a competitive wage.
Competitive with who and what? Minimum wage in Ontario? Minimum wage in the third world?
Unrelated, look at Canada Post. They claim the rotating strikes have cost them half their business. The union is winning big time because a strike is economic warfare. So Canada post does what's available to them. They have cut mail delivery to 3 days a week in urban areas. They should leave the 3 day mail delivery permanently.
The union is winning to the extent that business returns to "normal" once economic warfare is over. Unfortunately people who discover how convenient it is to pay their bills online or at the bank don't always go back to mailing their payments through the mail.
If the business of filming is not profitable without tax credits, then the people involved in the business should either work for less or figure out a way to get the private sector to fund their projects. Should chess teachers demand a tax credit because without it there would be less chess teaching and therefore the government would get less income tax revenue? Most (99.9999%) people would say that's ridiculous and rightfully so. What makes film and TV programming so special?
If you ever took an economics degree, at some point you would be asked to solve a problem involving the subsidization of industries with pricing power which extend beyond your immediate area. Ultimately, you would find that it is possible, under some conditions, for this subsidy to be profitable on a net basis to you, the industry, and your taxpayers. So, in answer to your question, why you would do so - because it is in your best interest. Now as to wether a particular industry meets those conditions, that's a different question.
As to your suggestion that somehow people directly in the industry coordinate (all get together to offer special deals to the film industry or some other new industry etc.) to create the necessary profitable conditions, probably you underestimate the cost of coordination - something that the government can do.
Actually it would make more sense for the government to allow competition which would rush in and fill the void. I am curious as to why Porter airlines can get me from Windsor to Toronto for $42 when they have a seat sale while Air Canada has to charge me more than it would cost to fly to Los Angeles from Detroit.
That's the good part. You can pick whichever carrier you want. Is Air Canada flying out of Windsor with their big planes or is it Jazz or whatever they've rebranded the planes? I should know this because I also have a few shares of what was Jazz and is now renamed Chorus Aviation. This stuff was on sale back in 2009 and I picked up some. Problem is I forgot to sell.
Should chess teachers demand a tax credit because without it there would be less chess teaching...
Considering that good chess teachers are scarce and that more chess teaching is needed for the benefit of our kids, asking (not demanding) for tax credits or other forms of funding does make a lot of sense. And if asking makes sense, giving certainly can also make sense.
Most (99.9999%) people would say that's ridiculous and rightfully so.
Then 99.9999% of people could be wrong because of lack or improper information. That would not be the first time that most people are wrong and a minority of people is right. Or maybe it is not about being right or wrong, it is about seeing things from different angles. Things are not only black and white Tom. You have got to let some nuances into your pictures.
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