Why was there no "debate" for CCB benefits, or the Guaranteed Income Supplement for seniors? Some of them are living in houses that have doubled in value in the past 5 years, do they really need an extra $1200 on top of Old Age security and ccp. Lets have that debate. oh and what about the 10 million people 18-65 that get disability in this country of only 38 million. People living in tents get $550 from welfare, at most.....seems to be a problem here.

Economic theory tells us that any broad increase in individual income would be capitalized into higher land prices, which translates into higher costs of both rental and ownership housing. The appropriate solution is law that eliminates the conventional property tax in favor of an annual charge on land ownership equal to the potential annual rental value of whatever land is held. In lieu of this fundamental tax reform, the best alternative is for the public subsidy of construction of permanently affordable housing units. There are several good models to ensure housing is permanently affordable. One is for communities to take publicly-owned land (or take land by means of eminent domain) and put the land in a housing trust. The price of housing units on trust land would be based on replacement cost less depreciation. Eligibility would be limited to households with income up to some percentage of area median income. Ground rent charges would be set at some percentage of the estimated market ground rent. To prevent owners of housing units from enjoying windfall profits, resale of the housing units would be set based, again, on replacement cost less depreciation.

Its crazy not talk about UBI on the premise of AI

Reason for food stamps instead of cash is because in crunch people will use money for what’s due now like rent or electric and run out of money for food later in the month.

$13,000 a year is not nearly enough to replace benefits

It's so hard to find a place to reach out to your podcast team to comment. So, I'm leaving it on KZbin. I'm a big fan of The Curious Task. I particularly liked this interview which gave me a great overview of Rand's ideas. I've been meaning to get to Rand and this was a great start.

To what extent do I owe my fellow citizens simply because we were both born inside the same imaginary lines?

Everywhere i have read UBI would be way too expensive

Argentina and Venezuela have shown us that social programs work and scale well over time. Let's follow their lead and pat ourselves on the back about how noble it is to do so.

I would really like if they seriously tried this somewhere so we could get a good sense of what the outcome would be. Not where I live of course but somewhere. The studies from what I have seen have not been nearly long enough to be of any real use imo. Good discussion here

Libertarians dont really exist, they are just conservatives that live in denial.

Drag queen story hour shows you it's the exact opposite.

great video and organization. whoever did the makeup - terrible. the lipstick is gaudily obvs.

Couldn’t the amalgamated Rousseau-Hobbes-Locke avatar of social contract theory, were they in the room, simply ask, ‘Are you being held in the country against your will?’ Couldn’t the social contract be like a subscription service you’re automatically signed up for but can cancel anytime, however onerous that process might be? By staying in the country, when you are free to leave, are you not in some sense consenting to the laws of the land? Furthermore, if you live a society with free speech and universal suffrage, you can *change* the laws, by convincing a sufficient number of your fellow citizens to elect leaders who agree to do so, or by directly appealing to those leaders to revoke old laws and write new ones. So... there’s that. And if we all know what ‘not in our name’ means, what conditions must obtain for to say a policy is *in* our name? Presumably, the Iraq War protest movement itself was acting in its own name; one protester may disagree with the sign of another protester - still, they both march under the same anti-war banner. If a union votes 65 to 35 to strike, are all 100 workers striking ‘in their own name’? This rejection of social contract theory as a mere normative-ideological trick of those in power pulls at the threads of all identity formation and collective mobilization. And those just happen to be the very sociopolitical mechanisms we need to *check* those in power. It’s one of the few things that ever truly has, and that’s may be why even authoritarian leaders worry over their approval ratings.

The idea that Conservatives reject modernity is a wide miss for me

Huemer should debate Tim Hsiao on this topic. Hsiao directly addresses the moral status issue.

I'm dumbfounded that Shahar gave away the farm on the moral issue of eating animals and instead focused on the issue of whether a single person has an effect. Shahar's rebuttal seems to boil down to "sure its wrong to eat and make animals suffer but me not eating/buying meat is not going to have much of an effect on that so i don't have any obligation." I think that sort of response was blown out of the water by Huemer's counter examples like slave labor, baby meat factories, etc. FYI: i'm not a vegetarian

We need more zoning laws for the ideal kind of housing: the single family home

Vancouver has been stolen from canadians and sold

Jan offers many reasons why wind energy is a scam and backs everything up with facts. In a concise manner too.

The wheels are spinning now. The individual. Solving individual problems fixes everyone. Ripple effect. Law fixes nothing. Failure to control. Start with the most serious case. Fix the individual. And we will all be happier.

Really Thanks for posting.looking for the next one

all for not filling out a document and not paying money. WOW

thanks for posting this

the video is just vapid enthusiasm, but unfortunately it's pretty scary stuff if you listen to any of the seminars. full on indoctrination and propaganda.

Indoctrination of the impressionable youth.

LOVE the stilettos comment. People forget these things. :-)

so is he a kumara' communist or lingering prism Nazi? ya never know.

You should have improved the sound. I like Steve though.

I understood "Property Rights" when I took that cookie from a toddler.

Where in the legislation is the previously existing God given Right, explicitly and irrevocably removed? I've not found it and have looked all the way back to the BNA!?

Delusional.

Really very interesting historical perspective on justice and property rights. Definitely worth a watch.

Very interesting.

we need to make understanding of markets tradition and rituals of society.

Never in my life will I understand how such intellectual-sounding people can spew such garbage from their mouths

As the Ontario Libertarian Party candidate who ran last week in the Thornhill by-election, I applaud all effects by everyone, everywhere, who support the cause of replacing our current political paradigm of totalitarian statism with public policies based on the principles of classical liberalism. For anyone interested, my blogs [[email protected]] will describe the views of an individual citizen who has chosen to be politically active for 2 simple reasons: 1- to protect my children from the enslaving policies of totalitarian statism and 2. - to provide the citizens of the Thornhill riding with the only legitimate electoral option if they are serious about reducing the insidious and pernicious expansion of government in their lives. "Democracy" has no meaning if this option does not exist on every election ballot in the country.

This is excellent. Thank you so much to whoever posted (and that's a CLASSIC vintage classroom!) Connects up in nice ways with Hauerwas on eschewing political "urgency." Again, so nice to see such an extended, nuanced discussion.

Trudeau was surrounded by Jesuits who worked on behalf of the pope to take away our property rights. They are still retained under the magna carta. Anyone trying to take blame away from trudeau and even defend him must be of the same ilk. I note that jaworski was trained at georgtown university...very telling.

awesome stuff

Brilliant!

It's not a bowtie. In the digital world it means hope.

Frequent mention of America only entrenches the fallacy that somehow whatever we do we are subject to comparison to them. We are not subject to comparison in any field, we have different histories and different destinies, so as benign and academic as these mentions seem, they actually undermine the sense of Canadian uniqueness and nationhood.

It would be nice to see the whole thing