The one-time grocery rebate will be issued next week — here’s who’s eligible for it an how much you could get.

  • psvrh@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    here’s who’s eligible for it

    Galen Weston is eligible for it. Everyone else is just a link in the chain.

    This is a direct wealth transfer from taxpayers to shareholders because government is too compromised and/or chickenshit to implement a tax policy that discourages profiteering.

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      Fair, but this isn’t just free money for grocery stores – it’s no-strings-attached cash that will be spent where people most need it. Which, yes, will be groceries for a lot of people.

      I don’t like the handling of grocery gouging, but this specific rebate is not the problem.

  • kape@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    extra money in the pocket is always nice but wish our government went a little further- maybe tackle why prices are so high?

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      Agreed. I’m not going to say no to the money, but if gouging isn’t dealt with then a cash injection to grocery shoppers is going to turn into a reward for those doing the gouging. Not that I have any problem with direct cash payments, but this feels like half a solution.

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    I work in a difficult trade away from my family for long periods to be able to afford a fraction of what my parents had on a single income. Think I’m getting a single cent of that rebate?

  • kape@lemmy.world
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    extra money in the pocket is always nice but wish our government went a little more- maybe tackle why prices are so high?

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    Instead of putting a band-aid over a cut, why don’t we try to clot it?

    Instead of maintaining all that useless yard space, why don’t we start to encourage urban farming? Introduce tax incentives for spending on home-use vertical farming structures.

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      I think a better analogy is: instead of putting a Band-Aid over a cut, why don’t we put the knives away?

      Well, we’re already bleeding so we need the Band-Aid. But we should still put away the knives.