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Old 04-24-2019, 08:04 PM
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So I see there is an entrepreneurial Alberta company bottling and selling Alberta's fresh air. And it isn't cheap. 30 bucks for 8 liters of fresh air from Banff. And they are selling in places with high air pollution, like China.

So this company is selling Alberta air and now pays a business tax on those profits. So that means our Alberta air is starting to be exploited and taxed.

Does anyone think this concept is over the edge a bit or is it just me? Could be the start of fresh air taxes on top of carbon taxes.

I don't really want to promote this but I will put the link to the company.

https://vitalityair.com/collections/our-air
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That’s expensive too....


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Old 04-24-2019, 08:11 PM
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Old 04-24-2019, 08:15 PM
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Alberta diversification of our economy! If they’re making money employing people and paying there taxes I really don’t care.

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Old 04-24-2019, 09:35 PM
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Thats a great idea to sell, our air is already taxed "Carbon Tax", might as well get others to add some to our tax base as well. Not like they get to keep our air, we will get it back someday.
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Old 04-24-2019, 09:45 PM
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So I see there is an entrepreneurial Alberta company bottling and selling Alberta's fresh air. And it isn't cheap. 30 bucks for 8 liters of fresh air from Banff. And they are selling in places with high air pollution, like China.

So this company is selling Alberta air and now pays a business tax on those profits. So that means our Alberta air is starting to be exploited and taxed.

Does anyone think this concept is over the edge a bit or is it just me? Could be the start of fresh air taxes on top of carbon taxes.

I don't really want to promote this but I will put the link to the company.

https://vitalityair.com/collections/our-air
Why are you against Capitalism, and selling our natural resources, while providing employment?
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Old 04-24-2019, 09:46 PM
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All I can think about when reading this is Spaceballs.
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Old 04-24-2019, 09:55 PM
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Everybody needs a thneed....

If you don't know the reference you don't have kids or grandkids
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Old 04-24-2019, 09:59 PM
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Went to the Burgess Shale with a Japanese guy carrying similar oxygen. Apparently quite common over there. We thought he was going to have a heart attack part way up.

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Everybody needs a thneed....

If you don't know the reference you don't have kids or grandkids
Thneedville is the home of the Lorax

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Old 04-24-2019, 10:37 PM
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Exactly! Kids or grandkids?
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Exactly! Kids or grandkids?
I’ve got a 10 year old daughter.

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Old 04-24-2019, 11:03 PM
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Love the Biz idea.. Free product and charge out the Wazzoooo!
Up to $18,500 for a bottle..

Love it, love the ingenuity of it all.
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Old 04-25-2019, 02:27 AM
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I find this disturbing. What if they sell all of our air......then what will we do?
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Old 04-25-2019, 07:23 AM
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This guy must have a hell of a time figuring out his import and exports taxes.
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Old 04-25-2019, 07:26 AM
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I find this disturbing. What if they sell all of our air......then what will we do?
Easy peasy - we will have B.C. run a pipeline into AB supplying us with fresh ocean air.

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Old 04-25-2019, 07:38 AM
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Easy peasy - we will have B.C. run a pipeline into AB supplying us with fresh ocean air.

Dodger.
That would never work. Would you like to know why?
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...because BC sucks.


Ah now I can live peacefully today knowing I've done my good deed for the day!!!
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Old 04-25-2019, 07:49 AM
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The old time underground coal miners would try and send a young rookie to go to the entry and get a can of fresh air. That and giving the rookie his first chew of snuff. Then having him pick up something heavy so he would swallow some of it and turn green.
I bet they never thought someone would start selling those cans of fresh air.
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Old 04-25-2019, 08:54 AM
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What the eff ??

Serious ??

They seen Spaceballs to many times ?
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Old 04-25-2019, 09:55 AM
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They've actually been doing this since 2014.
Hey, if you can make money from it, go for it.
And realistically the 'fresh air' tax is worrying about impossibilities.
The carbon tax (which I think is bogus as well) is supposed to help us clean up the effects of burning fossil fuels and coming up with a cleaner fuel source, because it does damage the environment (though not as much as the lefty loonies would have you believe).
Don't think anyone has proven that fresh air is bad and we have to tax it to improve it in some way.
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Old 04-25-2019, 10:31 AM
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That's it, to help me cover off the new proposed plastic tax, I'm going to rinse out any pop bottles and drill the caps and add a tire valve and pump them up with my bicycle pump. $10 a bottle of fresh country air. Actually, I may have to adjust the price based on cost of production, so don't quote my $10 price point. Dragons Den, here I come ... Saving the planet one pop bottle at a time.

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Old 04-25-2019, 11:34 AM
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It's just you Red.

Like selling pigeons. The air has been trained to return home for resale.


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That would never work. Would you like to know why?
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...because BC sucks.


Ah now I can live peacefully today knowing I've done my good deed for the day!!!

Except you got it wrong.
The saying goes,

BC Blows and Sask Sucks...
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Old 04-25-2019, 11:36 AM
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The farmers in Quebec tried that but nobody wanted to smell their "dairy air"
(derrière)
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Old 04-25-2019, 11:54 AM
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It's just you Red.

Except you got it wrong.
The saying goes,

BC Blows and Sask Sucks...
Wouldn't want to argue with a guy that has your experience.
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Old 04-25-2019, 04:45 PM
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The farmers in Quebec tried that but nobody wanted to smell their "dairy air"
(derrière)
Outstanding work!
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Old 04-25-2019, 04:51 PM
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Easy peasy - we will have B.C. run a pipeline into AB supplying us with fresh ocean air.

Dodger.
If you ran a hose in a loop pumping B.C.air into Alberta and then back into B.C. , B.C. would be protesting that Alberta is polluting B.C.
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Old 04-25-2019, 05:00 PM
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Travelled Alaska highway before it was paved. Selling bottles of “Genuine Alaska Highway Dust”. Bottle was only 1/4 full.
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Old 04-25-2019, 05:02 PM
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With all the wind lately there is no shortage of air. And, with the upcoming federal election a lot of it will be hot but maybe unsaleable.
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Old 04-25-2019, 06:20 PM
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That would never work. Would you like to know why?
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...because BC sucks.


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Old 04-25-2019, 06:52 PM
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Cut expenses

Collect it and bottle it right in China!

Lie on the label.

Like anyone stupid enough to buy fresh air could figure out how to sue you.....

And if they did, just say “oh yes a Dodge dually drove by as I was collecting the air one morning. Here! Here’s a bottle for 1/2 price. Sorry for your inconvenience “
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