Taxed the Canadian way...

[Shyla Wild]

They need a study to tell me this?
More waste of tax dollars.

If we would take care of business at home and not send money to every other fucking country, we might not have such high tax.
We should stop allowing refugee status to every non-Canadian that has the energy to fill out a form.
Most foreigners get pandered to and spoiled far more than me who was born here.

Stop the gravy train for all the special interest groups.
Everyone should be equal but the way it is, the less equal you claim to be, the less tax you have to pay.

Sure the standard of living is OK, but the standard is far too low for what I am paying through my nose.
We also pander to corporations who should be paying ALL the tax.

The country is off the hinges and out of control.
People are starving and Indian reservations are totally unaccountable, yet our government is more concerned about starting a war on the other side of the world. Trying to scare us with the Russians, WHEN THE REAL SCARY STUFF IS RIGHT HERE AT HOME!!!!
They are only keeping our attention away from it.
There is zero reason we should be paying so much tax.

You you want to really know the problem?

1- mismanagement of funds. If I have to explain this you should not be commenting on this thread.
2- NO TAXATION of two industries. Prostitution and Drugs. Because of the government's moral stand on these issues, both industries not only escape taxation but steal money out of our system. Drugs lords do not live in Canada or the US. They live in South America. This means, that the industry is not only un-taxed, but this multi-billion dollar industry is taking billions of dollars out of our system every year. Prostitution does the same thing in a smaller scale, as girls from South America and Asia come to the US and Canada every year, horde money and move it back to help families and pay for surgeries that cost a fraction of the price they cost here.

Crag, brings up an interesting point concerning gravy trains and handouts. I once saw a business Q&A here in Quebec where some of the smartest minds in business, business owners and Kevin Leary attended from Dragons Den spoke about the situation of business and taxation in canada. At one point, they spoke about Redistribution of Wealth. Kevin Leary brought up an interesting point. We tax our businesses too high. Instead of high taxation, he wants to lower the taxes and stop all corporate hand outs. He wants a level playing field. The government of Quebec gave Hyundai 300 million to build a plant. Hyundai, never opened the plant. Sports teams often hold cities ransom for a new stadium, this is not right. This is blackmail and extortion. The government needs to reorganize itself. Bureaucracy is out of control in this Country.

Fact in Quebec. They take away half your salary, and GST and PST combined are 15%. Meaning you lose 65% of your purchasing power

[Mugsammy]

And the Netherlands...

Switzerland.. Highest standard of living in the world.. about 5% more taxes than us.. 3% unemployment..

They don't allow immigration.. except in very special circumstances.. one of the few countries in Europe that opted for sovereignty VS the EU..

How right you are Alexis. Notice geographically where all of these happy people countries are!? Most people if asked would say Hawaii, or several of those hot countries. These happy countries are because of their governments continue to use the peoples taxes where they are needed the most...back to the care and welfare of their own citizens first.

[Mugsammy]

Government kissing big business ass...

You you want to really know the problem?

1- mismanagement of funds. If I have to explain this you should not be commenting on this thread.
2- NO TAXATION of two industries. Prostitution and Drugs. Because of the government's moral stand on these issues, both industries not only escape taxation but steal money out of our system. Drugs lords do not live in Canada or the US. They live in South America. This means, that the industry is not only un-taxed, but this multi-billion dollar industry is taking billions of dollars out of our system every year. Prostitution does the same thing in a smaller scale, as girls from South America and Asia come to the US and Canada every year, horde money and move it back to help families and pay for surgeries that cost a fraction of the price they cost here.

Crag, brings up an interesting point concerning gravy trains and handouts. I once saw a business Q&A here in Quebec where some of the smartest minds in business, business owners and Kevin Leary attended from Dragons Den spoke about the situation of business and taxation in canada. At one point, they spoke about Redistribution of Wealth. Kevin Leary brought up an interesting point. We tax our businesses too high. Instead of high taxation, he wants to lower the taxes and stop all corporate hand outs. He wants a level playing field. The government of Quebec gave Hyundai 300 million to build a plant. Hyundai, never opened the plant. Sports teams often hold cities ransom for a new stadium, this is not right. This is blackmail and extortion. The government needs to reorganize itself. Bureaucracy is out of control in this Country.

Fact in Quebec. They take away half your salary, and GST and PST combined are 15%. Meaning you lose 65% of your purchasing power

In Canada, Government mismanagement of funds is out of control. Over the last few decades we've seen the mismanagement, corruption of our own government in awarding contracts, theft by government officials, we've seen it all. It seems everyday more and more are being brought to the forefront. The issue of accountability needs to be pursued further. To a large degree we're still being laughed at by the culprits. Look at that arrogant snob Mr. Duffy...as if he's got a reason to laugh, or Pam Wallin of whom people of Sask still support because "she's too nice to do such a thing" Well, she's not too nice because she did it!

Who here remembers the contract for Military helicopters that was awarded by the conservatives, shelved by same conservatives at a cost of 500 million to get out of the numerous contracts, then picked up again by the new Liberal government for the exact same helicopters. (I could have it backwards here, too lazy to look it up!) Who wants to talk about Canada's submarines? At costs in the billions nobody from government paid with their jobs for these fiascos. They called it "managing the budget thru cuts in government spending" and "reducing the deficit." It cost less to give this money away, a write-off, then to see them through.

Or the First Nations communities where going back to the early 90's corruption was discovered where Chiefs were going on vacations with entire families, including extended families...aunts, uncles, cousins and band employees, chartered airplanes, only family members got jobs on the reserves, while the rest lived in or near poverty. Or more recently a Chief of a small BC community (about 50 people) earning 3 times the Prime Minister salary. Trust me...this is only the beginning of this!

Or about 15 years ago when our Minister of Health declared after an audit where over 1 billion was unaccounted for "I don't know what happened or where the moneys at!" She got transferred to another ministers position instead of being fired.

A more recent audit shows 3.2 billion unaccounted for in Canada's "anti-terrorist" funds. If we add it all up, that's a lot of education, healthcare, or whatever money!

Military spending gets cut, less services from health care, etc while these hand outs continue. Buddy system gets government jobs, buying votes...

That's our tax dollars my friend!!

[Alexis]

Which supports my main point that high taxation is part of what brings us a beautiful country to call our own .I am not sure why you are trying to disagree with me unless you are saying they are better because they don't allow immigration. Which is a weird argument to compare to Canada because without immigration we would not have a hell of a lot here.

I'm not really disagreeing with you.. other than on immigration perhaps..

You live in Vancouver right?? lol..

I only support immigration of skilled people.. my parents were immigrants.. both highly skilled professionals..

I do not support the whole family sponsorship program that floods out country with unskilled labour..

Also the amount of illegal immigrants from Asia in Vancouver is staggering.. They're flooding the unskilled labour market and they're employers are racist as lots of Asians only hire Asians.. Not to mention the hundreds of Asian women that are being trafficked in this city every month..

We need to stop illegal and unskilled immigration.. We also need to curb the amount of free foreign aide we hand out..

[Mugsammy]

Here here Alexis!

I'm not really disagreeing with you.. other than on immigration perhaps..

You live in Vancouver right?? lol..

I only support immigration of skilled people.. my parents were immigrants.. both highly skilled professionals..

I do not support the whole family sponsorship program that floods out country with unskilled labour..

Also the amount of illegal immigrants from Asia in Vancouver is staggering.. They're flooding the unskilled labour market and they're employers are racist as lots of Asians only hire Asians.. Not to mention the hundreds of Asian women that are being trafficked in this city every month..

We need to stop illegal and unskilled immigration.. We also need to curb the amount of free foreign aide we hand out..

I'll back you up on that!

It'll be easier for immigrants from problematic countries...Africa (s),Philippines, Thighland, Syria, etc to come to Canada. I'm all for immigration, we were built on immigration, but as Alexis said...

Who wants to work for Asians as a slave with slave wages (oh oh!)? Not my Irish ass!

[toban]

Let?s get back to using our finances for Canadian purposes.

Here?s my contribution to this listing of moneys poorly spent by our Federal Government.

Since the Conservatives have been in power they seem to have decided to turn Canada into a warring nation as opposed to our previous stance on the world stage as a nation honoured world-wide for it?s past efforts at peacekeeping. Look at the billions we have spent lately in assisting the US in their military fiascos in the Middle East and the additional cost in Canadian lives lost or the lives wasted by injuries, leaving our young men with broken minds and bodies which we then refuse to treat in an honourable way by withholding cash for treatment or pension when found necessary.

As others here have pointed out today, we pump 10?s of millions every other day into assistance for other countries and wealthy industrial giants while all the time abandoning our own needy by claiming the task is impossible because of a total lack of funds. Where, oh where is the money tree those funds that our PM, promises so freely, come from?

By attempting to suck up to the United States with their inclination to become the self-appointed regulator of world affairs, we have spent billions in fighting wars that they alone have responsibility for initiating yet last week again, our forces were deployed to assist in the Ukraine.

Besides those billions of dollars already spent supporting the US, the current government is attempting to further kiss America?s ass by refusing to drop out of the US stealth-fighter program that is going to cost us untold billions more than we have been told before we are finished and worst of all, since we are not an aggressor nation, (or at least we have never been known as an aggressor nation before) as is the US is known, why in the world do we need stealth fighters? We are ordering these only to ?Keep up with the Joneses? aka USA!

Let?s keep our military for peace-keeping and humanitarian aid rather than using it as an adjunct of the US Army! Let?s get back to using our finances for Canadian purposes.

[Mugsammy]

Why war?

Here’s my contribution to this listing of moneys poorly spent by our Federal Government.

Since the Conservatives have been in power they seem to have decided to turn Canada into a warring nation as opposed to our previous stance on the world stage as a nation honoured world-wide for it’s past efforts at peacekeeping. Look at the billions we have spent lately in assisting the US in their military fiascos in the Middle East and the additional cost in Canadian lives lost or the lives wasted by injuries, leaving our young men with broken minds and bodies which we then refuse to treat in an honourable way by withholding cash for treatment or pension when found necessary.

As others here have pointed out today, we pump 10’s of millions every other day into assistance for other countries and wealthy industrial giants while all the time abandoning our own needy by claiming the task is impossible because of a total lack of funds. Where, oh where is the money tree those funds that our PM, promises so freely, come from?

By attempting to suck up to the United States with their inclination to become the self-appointed regulator of world affairs, we have spent billions in fighting wars that they alone have responsibility for initiating yet last week again, our forces were deployed to assist in the Ukraine.

Besides those billions of dollars already spent supporting the US, the current government is attempting to further kiss America’s ass by refusing to drop out of the US stealth-fighter program that is going to cost us untold billions more than we have been told before we are finished and worst of all, since we are not an aggressor nation, (or at least we have never been known as an aggressor nation before) as is the US is known, why in the world do we need stealth fighters? We are ordering these only to “Keep up with the Joneses” aka USA!

Let’s keep our military for peace-keeping and humanitarian aid rather than using it as an adjunct of the US Army! Let’s get back to using our finances for Canadian purposes.

Bosnia...Canada had a choice in Bosnia...defend yourself or get killed. Our peacekeepers were being fired upon and not allowed to defend themselves. Mostly, Canadian soldiers were not even given ammunition. Then policy changed that Canadians could defend themselves but only if fired upon first, ridicules policy! Finally, after lots of screaming and hollering Canadians were given the green light, they were allowed to fight, protect and save themselves. This led to Canada being involved in war.

Gen. (Ret'd) Romeo Delaire can attest to bad military decisions and inactivity leading to ethnic cleansing and the murders of UN Peacekeepers.

I don't believe the US are self-appointed regulators of the world. They are needed, catch 22, shit happens..."where are the USA? Why won't they help us!" When they do get involved..."what are you/we doing here? None of our business, get out!"

Maybe Canada are followers, but to those who believe that the USA are evil and behind everything bad that happens in the world...not so. They were late entering, but if they stayed out of the Great Wars...would the good guys have won? I don't think so. In fact had they entered sooner maybe it would have ended much sooner instead of letting Nazi Germany get a foot hold all across Europe. Hummm...look at Russia now...chipping away...a little piece of Muldova here, Nice little slice of Latvia there...big chunk of Ukraine here...where does it end!? Or does it...

[Mugsammy]

Well well well now!

I don't know where the savings went, it's not in my bank account...but I'm not a family! I'd probably be ok with taxes the way they are if the government spent more wisely. Please don't call taking taxes at 50% from me as "spending!" I didn't "spend" it! So, here's some today's news:


Finance minister hints at tax cuts before 2015 election, but is that what Canadians want?


By Andy Radia | Canada Politics – 2 hours 42 minutes ago


Finance Minister Joe Oliver. (Photo courtesy The Canadian Press)


The Harper government is musing about tax cuts — surprise, surprise — just ahead of the 2015 election campaign.


At the onset of a two-day confab with business leaders about the state of Canada's economy, Finance Minister Joe Oliver suggested that the impending budget surplus gives the government some flexibility.


"I’m talking about reducing taxes for Canadian families and individuals, yes," Finance Minister Joe Oliver told reporters on Tuesday, according to the Canadian Press.


"We’ll also be able to look at individual areas where prudent spending will be appropriate, and of course reducing the debt is another issue we’re going to be examining."


Tempting the electorate with some fiscal goodies such as tax cuts at election time, is a tried-and-true tradition in Canadian politics. In 2006, for example, the Harper Conservatives promised to cut the GST by 2 percentage points.


The Tories say they have been aggressive tax-slashers since coming into office: they often boast that they've cut taxes 140 times, saving the average Canadian family of four $5,500 each year.