Unify Action - July 09, 2025


I Make These Socialists Admit Their Policies WON'T Help Canada!


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5 minutes

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173.24

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1,016

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21


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In this episode, we talk about socialism and what it means to be socialist. We talk about the benefits of socialism and how it could be implemented in Canada. We also talk about some of the problems we have in our country and how socialism could solve them.

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00:00:00.000 Norway, Sweden, Finland, I think those are the countries that I think, I mean, they have their issues.
00:00:03.840 There's a lot of xenophobia in those countries and they have their issues, but I think economically, I like the way they do socialism.
00:00:10.460 I'm sorry, I'm going to have to debunk the Swedish socialism myth.
00:00:13.300 Okay, yeah.
00:00:14.400 You all mentioned that you were socialist.
00:00:16.660 I'll take it, yeah.
00:00:18.260 So can you tell me what draws you to socialism and what country's socialism you would like to model?
00:00:30.000 So basically what draws me to socialism and the idea that a lot of life has been very easy for me because I grew up in a opportune life.
00:00:39.980 You know, my parents had the money to send me to university and everything made life easier for me.
00:00:47.540 And I think that wealthy people should be then paying taxes so that people who don't have the money for university can go to university for free,
00:00:54.220 can have a universal basic income so they can explore their potential without being held back
00:01:01.380 by the class system. So I still believe in a market economy, but I think that wealthy people
00:01:08.960 should be paying more taxes so that other people have the opportunity to explore their potential.
00:01:15.700 And then we get a society where we don't have people who would be very good in high positions
00:01:21.620 but can't reach that because of the way that the class system is set up.
00:01:26.440 No, I didn't answer the country question.
00:01:28.760 I think that, like, in Sweden, you get a salary for going to university,
00:01:35.520 which means that basically anyone can go to university
00:01:38.300 and get the job that they're passionate about and that they would excel at.
00:01:43.760 Same in those countries, like Norway, Sweden, Finland.
00:01:47.000 I think those are the countries that I think, I mean, they have their issues.
00:01:49.440 there's a lot of xenophobia in those countries and they have their issues but I think economically
00:01:53.860 I like the way they do socialism if you try to take the cheapest option you're gonna it's gonna
00:01:59.520 be bad you gotta invest and that does increase taxes but if you do that just on the wealthy
00:02:04.220 wealthiest percentage that's not gonna affect their quality of life yeah um so you guys are
00:02:10.900 okay with an increase in taxes then on wealthy people yes okay so you pointed at Sweden okay
00:02:18.520 all right i will i'm sorry i'm gonna have to debunk the swedish socialism myth okay yeah if
00:02:24.720 that's okay with you guys all right so the 1950s they were the fourth wealthiest nation in the
00:02:31.060 world 1950s in the 1970s they decided hey we've had all this great success with our capitalism
00:02:37.820 but let's try socialism let's see how it goes so they did things like you guys are advocating for
00:02:45.020 They put in a whole lot of taxes on the wealthy, huge taxes on wealth, inheritance, and income.
00:02:52.640 They were okay for maybe 20 years, but they had problems that it spiraled down.
00:02:59.200 So they didn't add a single net job to their private sector for 20 years.
00:03:05.340 That was a huge problem.
00:03:06.820 Their unemployment rate skyrocketed, like, insanely.
00:03:10.100 and that even when they walked back those principles of like huge taxes on the wealthy
00:03:15.560 and inheritance tax and stuff like that when they walked that back they still had unemployment for
00:03:20.320 years to come they're doing okay now because they've walked those principles back and in 1990
00:03:25.240 they had an immense financial crash like they had to jack their interest rates the central break
00:03:31.120 jack their interest rates to like 500 for a couple days it was an insane economic crash
00:03:37.780 so and and they drove the wealthy from their country that's part of the reason that they
00:03:43.520 had no growth in their job market but also you're talking about all these economical things but how
00:03:48.420 what does that really change if they're uh consistently in the top five freest countries
00:03:53.020 in the world and top five happiest countries in the world well maybe they weren't in the 1990s
00:03:58.280 they are now because they walked things back they're a successful country now because of that
00:04:02.600 current uh swedish policies yeah but they right now they don't have any wealth redistribution
00:04:09.180 they they have much higher taxes than they do here and 80 of what you're taxed goes back to you
00:04:17.220 in during your lifetime it's redistributed through the rest of your lifetime 80 of what you're taxed
00:04:23.160 20 will go to someone else so like there's really no wealth redistribution and i feel like that's
00:04:28.660 what people want to advocate for in socialism they want to see wealth redistribution from the
00:04:33.660 rich because they fear they fear the rich they see the rich as like privileged yeah and that
00:04:40.020 yeah like those models examples of things that we can do the benefits obviously like you're saying
00:04:46.420 there's high rates of um like joblessness in this job markets that's the same problem we're facing
00:04:51.060 here in canada right that's why you're like we're talking to us about the job market right we see
00:04:54.520 such high levels of people not being able to afford jobs so it is also a universal problem
00:04:58.740 that we see everywhere in our capitalist system it's more countries that have more progressive
00:05:03.640 policies yeah i think that's a a universal problem that definitely we know won't be solved with you
00:05:08.820 know implementing a few more progressive viewpoints right it's a small things like the university
00:05:13.700 being free and um uh i think they have some basic income thing i don't know exactly it's a small
00:05:19.880 things that you know you're not going to fix with a couple policies yeah the only way in which you
00:05:27.240 can redistribute effectively the wealth is by destroying the incentives to have wealth
00:05:33.320 and the question is what is the way what is the system which will offer those people who are so
00:05:40.680 unlucky as to be born without good positions what is the system which will offer them the greatest
00:05:46.120 opportunity
00:05:49.880 You