On the death of my family's dairy farm

Re:On the death of my family's dairy farm by wbl on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @12:01PM (#19369521)

And the consumer who desires fine French cheeses or the single mother who wants to give her children milk are less important because? If milk was cheaper there would be more demand for it. Of course the farmers like it.

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Re:On the death of my family's dairy farm by cbhl on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @12:46PM (#19370156)

> the single mother who wants to give her children milk are less important

The Canadians thought of that too! They give parents a refundable tax credit of $5481-6496/year per kid under 18, and that's just at the federal level.

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/forms-publi...

Plus, basic groceries (like milk, bread, vegetables) and feminine hygiene products have 0% sales tax:

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/busines...

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Re:On the death of my family's dairy farm by deskamess on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:56PM (#19371705)

Yes, but those tax credits could be stretched further if milk was cheaper.

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Re:On the death of my family's dairy farm by Scoundreller on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:53PM (#19373438)

The smart thing would be to pocket the credit and avoid expensive milk as much as possible.

Win, win!

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Re:On the death of my family's dairy farm by tenpies on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @12:09AM (#19375647)

And yet Canadians cannot even sustain their population without a massive immigration safety net.

Clearly it's not as smart, exceptional, or functional from a family perspective.

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Re:On the death of my family's dairy farm by MAGZine on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @12:18PM (#19369778)

I think we could do a better job opening markets to products that we don't have here, like cheeses from around the world.

I do hate when people use others as pawns in their arguments though. Are you a single mother unable to afford milk? Inevitably when it comes to talking about economics, the poor/single mothers/etc are always trotted out on stage as reason we need to cut taxes/change the way we do business.

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Re:On the death of my family's dairy farm by deskamess on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @03:00PM (#19371750)

The poster is allowed to empathize with another party.

However, I took would like to open the market to cheese. Let the consumer tolerate if they want to buy 'bad' cheese or, as advertised by the proponents, the 'better' Canadian cheese. Let the consumer choose.

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Re:On the death of my family's dairy farm by MAGZine on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @10:53PM (#19375261)

In my experience, when it comes to market ideology and taxes, people don't argue from empathy, they argue from the pocketbook.

In this case, they're arguing from _someone else's_ pocketbook. And it's not the dairy farmers pocketbook or average citizens exposed to global markets pocketbook.

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