Phil_in_here
We need to treat primary residence mortgages like taxes. I get the increase in borrowing rates to prevent people from buying things to combat inflation, but it really doesn’t help the cost of living crisis when you price having a place to live out of many Canadians’ budgets.
Its important to remember that rich assholes buying expensive things is not a reason to hate them: that’s envy. Rich assholes spending their money on expensive luxuries fund the luxury economy, which finds its way to the regular economy. That’s how economies work, the money moves. The spending isn’t the issue. It’s the hoarding. You can’t spend a trillion dollars. You can’t spend a billion dollars. But you can keep it out of the economy. That’s what keeps everyone else down.
It’s like if the top 70% of the ocean was just fucking cement.
Are they any ‘before’ pictures? Sounds more grotesque than a squad of plague marines.
I was a loyal Superstore customer for 15 years (prices were good, quality was good, selection was good) until this year when I was on my account and saw a link that showed me how much I had saved from my PC membership, which promised discounts on PC brand stuff which I bought frequently, but most notably 20% off diapers/baby products. Surely having a a small child and baby on the way I would recoup the $99 annual fee in just a few boxes of diapers! $68 in six years. I had never seen any notion of such a report before, it was the first time I ever checked. I assumed the discount was given in PC points or something, but no, I was just grifted out of $550. It was the last straw and I wish I had bought my Costco membership a decade ago.