The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - May 30, 2024


Moronic： Jagmeet Singh claims taxes don't affect prices!

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corporate greed
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Wyatt Claypool
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Jagmeet Singh Justin Trudeau Mark Michael Kim Safeway Sobeys
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Jagmeet Singh said something incredibly stupid at a press conference today when a reporter asked him his opinion on the Tories calling for a fuel tax holiday this summer, and Jagmeet Singh tried to claim that cutting taxes would not actually lower prices because it's only corporate greed that pushes prices up.

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00:00:00.000 You guys might not be particularly shocked to hear, but NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said something extremely stupid at a press conference today when a reporter asked him his opinion on the Conservatives calling for a fuel tax holiday this summer, and Jagmeet Singh trying to claim that cutting taxes would not actually lower prices, because he lives in a crazy person's world where it's only corporate greed that pushes prices up. 0.91
00:00:26.920 The government could raise taxes 100%, and it wouldn't touch prices. The only people who raise prices are dirty, dirty capitalists. But here's Jagmeet Singh saying this at a press conference. Thank you for True North for clipping this stuff for me. I don't really have a team who can do that. 0.98
00:00:42.520 Would you be intent to vote on the Conservative motion today about the carbon tax?
00:00:47.040 We're going to vote against the Conservative motion. Again, the Conservatives have really made it clear that on affordability, they have one message. When we hear from people...
00:01:01.040 The one message you got to admit...
00:01:03.040 About the cost of living and the high cost of growth.
00:01:05.040 Stop talking, Jagmeet. The one message the Conservatives have is pretty good. Cutting taxes. Who's against cutting taxes? And when he's acting like it's so simplistic, all they want to do is cut taxes and regulations.
00:01:17.040 Yes. That's the one thing that, as a government, you can do to lower prices. In Jagmeet Singh's mind, you can basically forcibly fix prices, and that somehow makes things cheaper when it doesn't. It just dries up supply and makes sure that a small portion of people get to have that product or get to have that housing unit at that reduced cost, whereas everyone else is just completely out of luck to get it in the first place.
00:01:42.040 But no, Jagmeet Singh has nothing. And now he's dodging as hard as possible to try and justify the fact that he won't back the Conservatives on anything because his entire political career right now leans on Justin Trudeau's Liberals.
00:01:55.040 Groceries, the high cost of their cell phone fees and internet fees. When we hear about the high cost of their rent. Again and again, it's becoming clear and clear that it is corporate greed that's driving up the cost of living.
00:02:09.040 And liberals and conservatives are doing nothing about corporate greed. They're not willing to take on corporate greed.
00:02:13.040 Most landlords in this country are not large corporate landlords. They're individuals who own a few housing units. They're not price gouging their tenants.
00:02:22.040 There is way too much demand on our housing market right now because of Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau having sky high immigration rates, raising taxes, raising regulations and making it impossible to operate in the free market.
00:02:36.040 But Jagmeet Singh is here to say, no, no, no, it's not me hamstringing people and forcing them to do what they used to do at a higher cost. It's them reacting to the fact that we're raising costs on business owners and landlords and all these other individuals.
00:02:50.040 And the fact that we have crazy high demand from immigration and that they are unfairly in response to all those things, raising prices, raising rents, all that other stuff, which is the real driver of cost of living.
00:03:02.040 We're prepared to do that. We're prepared to take on corporate greed. I've got a bill on taking on corporate greed.
00:03:07.040 We'll be putting forward a motion next week for our opposition day motion, which directly goes after the corporate grocery stores and the fact that they're ripping off Canadians.
00:03:15.040 I'd like to see which way the conservatives and liberals will vote on addressing the real problem that is hurting the most Canadians right now, which is corporate greed.
00:03:23.040 And when he says corporate greed, really, he should just be saying freedom, economic freedom that you get to set the prices in your own store.
00:03:32.040 You get to compete freely against your competition. All of these corporate grocery stores have different prices than one another.
00:03:39.040 And a lot of them have different like net margin, like net profit margins. They all run on different models.
00:03:45.040 Some of them usually find cheaper infrastructure to run their grocery stores in less ideal locations, but they can keep prices down.
00:03:51.040 Some are more luxury brands. Some of the smaller grocery stores that aren't really big chains.
00:03:56.040 They usually have the highest prices, which is funny because Jagmeet Singh then will virtue signal by going to like a small organic grocer and saying this is what the Canada is all about.
00:04:05.040 People opening up their own small bit like grocery store businesses and, you know, competing against the corporate corporate dominated market.
00:04:12.040 But you have to realize I'm going to have nothing against small or big grocery stores.
00:04:17.040 Small grocery stores have higher prices because they're usually in pricier infrastructure, smaller locations.
00:04:22.040 Usually you're paying more per square foot that you're operating in.
00:04:25.040 You have to raise prices on your products because you cannot compete in a market of economics of scale.
00:04:32.040 You can't price things down because you can order in such a bulk of it.
00:04:36.040 But he's okay with organic grocery stores having large profit margins on their products.
00:04:41.040 But if you're Sobeys or you're Safeway or you're Loblaws, but not Metro because his brother lobbies for Metro.
00:04:47.040 So they're perfectly fine.
00:04:48.040 But if you're any of these other grocery stores and you're making 2%, 3% net margins at the end of the year, that's evil.
00:04:55.040 And really, it's just that Jagme Singh doesn't like successful business.
00:04:59.040 Anyways, I'll let him finish up here.
00:05:02.040 Canadians should get a break on gas taxes this summer.
00:05:05.040 Well, we believe in taking the GST up for home heating entirely.
00:05:10.040 The conservatives are proposing a temporary measure.
00:05:13.040 We believe that there are ways to give people belief.
00:05:16.040 There are ways to bring down the cost of living. 0.77
00:05:18.040 Let's do meaningful actions on bringing down the cost of groceries.
00:05:21.040 Let's bring down the cost of cell phone and Internet fees, which are completely regulated.
00:05:24.040 By the federal government.
00:05:26.040 The conservatives are proposing is a couple of months of relief.
00:05:29.040 We're proposing significant reduction in your overall cost of living.
00:05:33.040 I think that's a much better plan. 0.98
00:05:34.040 It's so silly.
00:05:36.040 His idea is that, well, yes, the conservatives are trying to give people a tax break, but I would also give them a tax break on their home heating with removal of GST, which is fine idea. 0.87
00:05:47.040 Honestly, that's totally fine by my by me.
00:05:49.040 But then he packages it together with all these other stupid measures that nobody is in favor of, like price fixing, groceries, rent controls, all this other stuff that is absolutely against free market principles. 0.99
00:06:02.040 So he won't vote for the conservatives measures that he admits would give people relief because he has this stupid, impossible plan that nobody will vote for. 0.98
00:06:11.040 And so he's just going to walk away from the table and say this is so unworkable. 1.00
00:06:14.040 Why does Polly have want to listen to my stupid ideas? 1.00
00:06:17.040 My party that only has 20 seats. 1.00
00:06:19.040 Why won't he listen to our horrible ideas?
00:06:22.040 And because he won't listen to our bad ideas, even though we obviously are not representative of a lot of Canadians opinions, we're not going to vote for his tax relief policies.
00:06:31.040 And he's also saved by the fact that if anything, if I was a smart version of Jagmeet Singh, I would have backed what the conservatives were doing because you know what?
00:06:40.040 It doesn't matter if Jagmeet Singh and the NDP votes for the tax relief or not.
00:06:44.040 The Bloc Québécois will not vote for it because Quebec has its own fuel taxes.
00:06:49.040 They have their own carbon taxes, so they will never vote for anything that is good for the rest of Canadians that would not actually benefit Quebecers.
00:06:58.040 That's kind of the whole thing with the Bloc is that they are a Quebec interest party.
00:07:02.040 And because Quebec itself as a province is a very high tax, high regulation jurisdiction, the Bloc almost acts as just a buffer against the rest of the country being able to move forward in a more prosperous direction.
00:07:17.040 And if you want regulation and tax cuts, you cannot pass it with the Bloc's help because they know on a provincial level their government will never do the same thing and they don't want to be outcompeted by the rest of the country.
00:07:28.040 And so the Bloc's politics are very, you know, backhanded in that they're not trying to make everyone better off.
00:07:35.040 They're just trying to make sure that nobody does better than Quebecers, which is not exactly a great way of trying to unify a country in federal politics, but I guess to each their own. 0.63
00:07:45.040 Well, that should be it for me today, guys.
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