OTTAWA – Pushing a grocery cart up and down the aisles of Loblaws, Jagmeet Singh has to admit it’s all a little bit awkward. After all, the NDP leader has lambasted the grocery giant and...
We’re too unwilling to use punitive taxation against the rich, and we shouldn’t be.
When you make millions, or billions, per year in post-tax profit you can certainly afford it. And if they don’t want to pay the tax, they can invest those profits back into their business.
Problem: 5 companies control 80% of the retail grocery market.
Solution: Ask their bosses to be a little less greedy, please.
Solution: Tax the fuck out of them, and use that money as a rebate for smaller grocery retailers, or direct to consumers.
This. This a thousand times.
We’re too unwilling to use punitive taxation against the rich, and we shouldn’t be.
When you make millions, or billions, per year in post-tax profit you can certainly afford it. And if they don’t want to pay the tax, they can invest those profits back into their business.