Arthur Klassen
@haikujester.bsky.social
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I post in Haikus
except when providing links
to other stuff seen. ... 俳句
We live for the one; we die for the one; we will not kill for the one. (Anla'shok, Anabaptist section)
Also jest by mis-quotation
I post in Haikus
except when providing links
to other stuff seen. ... 俳句
We live for the one; we die for the one; we will not kill for the one. (Anla'shok, Anabaptist section)
Also jest by mis-quotation
Welcoming hatred
Doesn't mean receiving it
Is easy or fun ... 俳句
I also welcome the hatred but I'd far rather have the source of it learn some other more constructive tongue.
Doesn't mean receiving it
Is easy or fun ... 俳句
I also welcome the hatred but I'd far rather have the source of it learn some other more constructive tongue.
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Welcoming hatred
Doesn't mean receiving it
Is easy or fun ... 俳句
I also welcome the hatred but I'd far rather have the source of it learn some other more constructive tongue.
Doesn't mean receiving it
Is easy or fun ... 俳句
I also welcome the hatred but I'd far rather have the source of it learn some other more constructive tongue.
As usual (here comes the spray-paint can):
Conservatism. The cruelty is the point.
Pitting the deprived against the miserable to the bored amusement (if they even notice) of the idle rich.
Conservatism. The cruelty is the point.
Pitting the deprived against the miserable to the bored amusement (if they even notice) of the idle rich.
December 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
As usual (here comes the spray-paint can):
Conservatism. The cruelty is the point.
Pitting the deprived against the miserable to the bored amusement (if they even notice) of the idle rich.
Conservatism. The cruelty is the point.
Pitting the deprived against the miserable to the bored amusement (if they even notice) of the idle rich.
So, no. I wasn't an English major. And I'm entirely unapologetic about that. I'm also always ready to grab a book, fiction or nonfiction, and learn something else I didn't know before. 7/7
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
So, no. I wasn't an English major. And I'm entirely unapologetic about that. I'm also always ready to grab a book, fiction or nonfiction, and learn something else I didn't know before. 7/7
I still prefer G. K. Chesterton's stories about essentially sane people in a mad world over and above any version of mad people (even people falling into insanity) in a dull (even semi-dull) world. And too much modern lit is too easily reducible to that. 6/7
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I still prefer G. K. Chesterton's stories about essentially sane people in a mad world over and above any version of mad people (even people falling into insanity) in a dull (even semi-dull) world. And too much modern lit is too easily reducible to that. 6/7
Even books people I otherwise admire recommend too highly. I can't bear, for instance, Dostoyevsky. Way too introspective, way too in love with things that lead to authoritarianism of one kind or another. 5/7
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Even books people I otherwise admire recommend too highly. I can't bear, for instance, Dostoyevsky. Way too introspective, way too in love with things that lead to authoritarianism of one kind or another. 5/7
But maybe that's all a measure of something else entirely. Maybe I was wrong about all those classes. I still enjoy reading (always have), but I'm often driven away from/turned off by books that take themselves as books too seriously. 4/7
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
But maybe that's all a measure of something else entirely. Maybe I was wrong about all those classes. I still enjoy reading (always have), but I'm often driven away from/turned off by books that take themselves as books too seriously. 4/7
And it was seldom a chance just to enjoy a good story. You had to be always looking for the "meta". You know, the ones the teachers liked enough that they gave a good mark. 3/7
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
And it was seldom a chance just to enjoy a good story. You had to be always looking for the "meta". You know, the ones the teachers liked enough that they gave a good mark. 3/7
(drifting off topic)
And you guys are right about "English" but not in the way it was being taught as I came up through high school and university. It was never appeared to be an opportunity to think for yourself. 2/7
And you guys are right about "English" but not in the way it was being taught as I came up through high school and university. It was never appeared to be an opportunity to think for yourself. 2/7
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
(drifting off topic)
And you guys are right about "English" but not in the way it was being taught as I came up through high school and university. It was never appeared to be an opportunity to think for yourself. 2/7
And you guys are right about "English" but not in the way it was being taught as I came up through high school and university. It was never appeared to be an opportunity to think for yourself. 2/7
for non-Piketty readers: earth owes money to Mars shorthand for: "sum of all declared assets" minus "sum of all documented debts" is negative. Anyone who knows double-entry book-keeping can smell a rat there. (I cut my teeth maintaining the "bedford" program)
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
for non-Piketty readers: earth owes money to Mars shorthand for: "sum of all declared assets" minus "sum of all documented debts" is negative. Anyone who knows double-entry book-keeping can smell a rat there. (I cut my teeth maintaining the "bedford" program)
seems straightforward but is possibly harder for Mr. Ordinary Voter to get his head around at first.
And it requires ABSOLUTE transparency about wealth from all sources -- no more "the earth owes money to Mars" nonsense anymore.
And it requires ABSOLUTE transparency about wealth from all sources -- no more "the earth owes money to Mars" nonsense anymore.
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
seems straightforward but is possibly harder for Mr. Ordinary Voter to get his head around at first.
And it requires ABSOLUTE transparency about wealth from all sources -- no more "the earth owes money to Mars" nonsense anymore.
And it requires ABSOLUTE transparency about wealth from all sources -- no more "the earth owes money to Mars" nonsense anymore.
I'm ALSO a big fan of @thomaspiketty.bsky.social and agree with his ideas of progressive wealth taxes -- and not just time of death. Waiting until it's an estate is waiting too long. Paying $1000/year per million for the privilege of a >$1M liquid net worth -- or something along those lines...
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I'm ALSO a big fan of @thomaspiketty.bsky.social and agree with his ideas of progressive wealth taxes -- and not just time of death. Waiting until it's an estate is waiting too long. Paying $1000/year per million for the privilege of a >$1M liquid net worth -- or something along those lines...
Yes, agreed. It just seemed to me, for the moment, to try to bring things in by simple, possibly easier-for-ordinary-blokes-to-understand steps ... it made sense to do this math on the tax brackets to show how wrong the applied solution was.
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Yes, agreed. It just seemed to me, for the moment, to try to bring things in by simple, possibly easier-for-ordinary-blokes-to-understand steps ... it made sense to do this math on the tax brackets to show how wrong the applied solution was.
But those issues are fuel for other posts, other days. For now, let's bring back "universality" to Canada's social programs, properly funded by the people (like me and those richer) who can afford to fund them.
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
But those issues are fuel for other posts, other days. For now, let's bring back "universality" to Canada's social programs, properly funded by the people (like me and those richer) who can afford to fund them.
We can turn away from the inequality we have -- only the extra revenue the government will have MUST be managed to spend it for the benefit of OUR PEOPLE, not the fat cats at the top.
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We can turn away from the inequality we have -- only the extra revenue the government will have MUST be managed to spend it for the benefit of OUR PEOPLE, not the fat cats at the top.
Here it is: tinyurl.com/fair-income-...
Share it with your MP. Find an MP who's willing to impose income tax brackets like this. Make that and Proportional Representation table-stakes for people to get your vote.
Share it with your MP. Find an MP who's willing to impose income tax brackets like this. Make that and Proportional Representation table-stakes for people to get your vote.
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Here it is: tinyurl.com/fair-income-...
Share it with your MP. Find an MP who's willing to impose income tax brackets like this. Make that and Proportional Representation table-stakes for people to get your vote.
Share it with your MP. Find an MP who's willing to impose income tax brackets like this. Make that and Proportional Representation table-stakes for people to get your vote.
Carney's recent "cut" to the lowest tax bracket WITHOUT RAISING THE TOP RATE is nowhere near as much a benefit to the poor and middle class as it is a further gift to the rich.
Elbows up? Not yet, mate. Not yet.
Elbows up? Not yet, mate. Not yet.
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Carney's recent "cut" to the lowest tax bracket WITHOUT RAISING THE TOP RATE is nowhere near as much a benefit to the poor and middle class as it is a further gift to the rich.
Elbows up? Not yet, mate. Not yet.
Elbows up? Not yet, mate. Not yet.
Instead, he slashed things down to fewer than half the brackets and the top-most incremental rate is a pittance compared to what's here.
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Instead, he slashed things down to fewer than half the brackets and the top-most incremental rate is a pittance compared to what's here.
These are the tax brackets we could have had today if he'd done the right thing: retroactively indexing the brackets and indexing them going forward.
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
These are the tax brackets we could have had today if he'd done the right thing: retroactively indexing the brackets and indexing them going forward.
you, too, please @zoeroyer.bsky.social! We don't need to build in more warming like this.
November 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
you, too, please @zoeroyer.bsky.social! We don't need to build in more warming like this.
sorta... like this? tinyurl.com/fair-income-...
The 1970 rates were taken from some ancient Revenue Canada sheet. I remember when Mulroney slashed these -- something had to be done because inflation had driven people north. It should have been indexing, instead it was a Norquistean dream.
The 1970 rates were taken from some ancient Revenue Canada sheet. I remember when Mulroney slashed these -- something had to be done because inflation had driven people north. It should have been indexing, instead it was a Norquistean dream.
1970 Tax Brackets Indexed Forward
tinyurl.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
sorta... like this? tinyurl.com/fair-income-...
The 1970 rates were taken from some ancient Revenue Canada sheet. I remember when Mulroney slashed these -- something had to be done because inflation had driven people north. It should have been indexing, instead it was a Norquistean dream.
The 1970 rates were taken from some ancient Revenue Canada sheet. I remember when Mulroney slashed these -- something had to be done because inflation had driven people north. It should have been indexing, instead it was a Norquistean dream.
The more often used,
The more I'm convinced, notwith-
standing should have none. ... 俳句
(standing, that is)
The more I'm convinced, notwith-
standing should have none. ... 俳句
(standing, that is)
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The more often used,
The more I'm convinced, notwith-
standing should have none. ... 俳句
(standing, that is)
The more I'm convinced, notwith-
standing should have none. ... 俳句
(standing, that is)
with this new role, will
you still have moments for a
half-full-ending hour? ... 俳句
Congrat's Nadine! Something to crow to the gang about tomorrow (afternoon for me, evening for you)! w00t! w00t!
you still have moments for a
half-full-ending hour? ... 俳句
Congrat's Nadine! Something to crow to the gang about tomorrow (afternoon for me, evening for you)! w00t! w00t!
November 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
with this new role, will
you still have moments for a
half-full-ending hour? ... 俳句
Congrat's Nadine! Something to crow to the gang about tomorrow (afternoon for me, evening for you)! w00t! w00t!
you still have moments for a
half-full-ending hour? ... 俳句
Congrat's Nadine! Something to crow to the gang about tomorrow (afternoon for me, evening for you)! w00t! w00t!
'cept when those who have
doct'rates in lit hold forth as
the medical kind ... 俳句
(or other kinds of misapplication, e.g. Dr. Oz, Dr. Laura, etc.)
doct'rates in lit hold forth as
the medical kind ... 俳句
(or other kinds of misapplication, e.g. Dr. Oz, Dr. Laura, etc.)
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
'cept when those who have
doct'rates in lit hold forth as
the medical kind ... 俳句
(or other kinds of misapplication, e.g. Dr. Oz, Dr. Laura, etc.)
doct'rates in lit hold forth as
the medical kind ... 俳句
(or other kinds of misapplication, e.g. Dr. Oz, Dr. Laura, etc.)